The water at George Air Force Base

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  • Airman Kate Kelly with her flight class at Lackland Air Force Base in 1974, just prior to getting assigned to George Air Force base. Kelly said she began to feel ill almost immediately upon arriving at George. She ultimately had three miscarriages and was never able to have children. While at George Kelly met her former husband, Ronald Holdren. He died in 2008 of multiple myeloma, a cancer that forms in plasma cells.
  • Air-to-air left side view of four F-4G Phantom II aircraft from the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing in formation over George Air Force Base. The aircraft with the multi-colored fin flash is assigned to the wing commander, the yellow to the commander of the 561st Tactical Fighter Squadron, the blue to the commander of the 562nd Tactical Fighter Training Squadron and the red to the commander of the 563rd Tactical Fighter Squadron. Each aircraft is armed with an AGM-45 Shrike missile.
  • Denise Torri and her husband served at George Air Force Base together from 1986 to 1989. She was an aircraft maintenance scheduler for the OV-10s, he was a weapons armament specialist. They got married in 1987 and got pregnant soon after. She miscarried. (Photo courtesy Denise Torri)
  • An air-to-air right side view of an OV-10 Bronco aircraft of the 27th Tactical Air Support Squadron over George Air Force Base.
  • Lisa McCrea (formerly Lanham) saved everything from the birth of her daughter at George Air Force Base. She said she was more sentimental because of the horrific miscarriage she had experienced before this birth, where doctors discovered tumors in her uterus. She is one of scores of women who have reported having miscarriages at George. Photo courtesy Lisa McCrea.
  • Part of the redacted medical files Kate Kelly received when she requested her medical record. The files from George AFB do not include her pregnancy or miscarriage, and other files, like these, came with detailed blacked out. (Photo courtesy Kate Kelly)
  • Lorie Clark was stationed at George AFB from 1980 to 1983 as an aviation ground electronics technician and gave birth to both of her daughters while serving there. Clark and both of her daughters have chronic migranes, cysts and both daughters have experienced miscarriages. Clark wonders whether she was exposed to toxic elements at the base that contributed to these issues. (Photo courtesy Lorie Clark)
  • A Marine carries a wounded comrade to safety during an urban combat training demonstration being conducted at the Southern California Logistics Airport, formerly George Air Force Base, during the joint service experimentation process dubbed Millennium Challenge 2002. While the base was closed, the military continued to use it for training exercises. (RDO).