Evidence shows that there is a connection between military service operations and cancer.

Edwards Air Force Base

The Air Force flight test center in the Mojave Desert, a Superfund site since 1990 with solvents, jet fuel, and PFAS documented in soil and groundwater.

Eielson Air Force Base

Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska is a Superfund site where fuel, solvents, and PFAS from firefighting foam contaminated groundwater that migrated into the nearby Moose Creek community.

Ellsworth Air Force Base

Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota is an EPA Superfund site where solvents such as TCE and PFAS from firefighting foam have been documented in groundwater and nearby private wells.

Fairchild Air Force Base

Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington was listed as a Superfund site in 1989, and AFFF-related PFAS later contaminated drinking water in neighboring Airway Heights.

Fort Belvoir

PFAS testing at Fort Belvoir, Virginia found firefighting foam chemicals in soil, groundwater, and the post's drinking water at levels above new EPA limits.

Fort George G. Meade

Fort George G. Meade, the Maryland Army post that hosts NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, was added to the EPA Superfund list in 1998 after TCE, solvents, and later PFAS were found in groundwater.

Fort McClellan

Fort McClellan, the former home of the Army Chemical Corps School in Anniston, Alabama, has been associated with TCE, PCE, PCB, heavy metal, and radiological contamination concerns.

Fort Wainwright

Fort Wainwright, the Army's Arctic post near Fairbanks, Alaska, is a 1990 Superfund site where fuel spills, solvent plumes, and AFFF-related PFAS have been documented in groundwater.

Hill Air Force Base

Hill Air Force Base in Utah, an EPA Superfund site since 1987, has documented TCE groundwater plumes extending under nearby communities and ongoing PFAS investigations tied to firefighting foam.

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska combines two Superfund sites where fuels, solvents, and PFAS firefighting foam have been documented in soil and groundwater.

Joint Base Langley-Eustis

Both components of Virginia's Joint Base Langley-Eustis are 1994 Superfund sites, with PFAS from firefighting foam found in groundwater at levels among the highest recorded on any U.S. military installation.

Lake City Army Ammunition Plant

Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri, a Superfund site since 1987, has documented TCE, solvent, PCB, heavy metal, and asbestos contamination from decades of munitions production.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point

MCAS Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina, a Superfund site since 1994, has documented PFAS, TCE, and PCB contamination from decades of air station operations.

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma

MCAS Yuma in Arizona was added to the Superfund list in 1990 after solvents such as TCE and PCE were found in groundwater beneath the air station.

Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany

MCLB Albany in Georgia was added to the Superfund National Priorities List in 1989 after landfill operations, industrial spills, and leaking PCB transformers contaminated soil and groundwater.

Memphis Defense Depot

Memphis Defense Depot, a 642-acre DLA supply installation in south Memphis, has been associated with TCE, PCE, solvent, and heavy metal contamination and was added to the Superfund list in 1992.

Naval Air Station Moffett Field

Decades of naval aviation at Moffett Field in California left TCE, PCE, and PCBs in soil and groundwater, placing the base on the EPA Superfund list in 1987.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River

PFAS, firefighting foam, solvents, and heavy metals have been documented at this Maryland Superfund-listed naval aviation test center on the Chesapeake Bay.

Naval Air Station Pensacola

NAS Pensacola, the Navy's first air station, was added to the Superfund list in 1989 after solvents, heavy metals, radium waste, and later PFAS were documented in soil and groundwater.

Naval Air Station Whiting Field

A Florida Navy training base where AFFF use and industrial operations left PFAS and solvent contamination, designated a Superfund site in 1994.

Robins Air Force Base

Robins Air Force Base in Georgia includes a Superfund site where solvents, heavy metals, and cyanide reached groundwater, and 2018 testing found PFAS in shallow groundwater far above federal health advisories.

Tooele Army Depot

Decades of industrial waste disposal at Tooele Army Depot in Utah created large TCE groundwater plumes, leading to a 1990 Superfund listing and one of the nation's largest groundwater treatment efforts.

Tyndall Air Force Base

Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, an EPA Superfund site since 1997, has documented PFAS, AFFF, and heavy metal contamination, with cleanup ongoing under federal and state oversight.

Dover Air Force Base

Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is an EPA Superfund site where groundwater solvents, benzene, arsenic, and PFAS from firefighting foam have raised concerns about potential health effects.

Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood, a major Army training post in Missouri, has documented PFAS and chlorinated solvent contamination tied to firefighting foam use and past dry cleaning operations, along with PCB releases.

Joint Base Cape Cod (Otis Air National Guard Base/Camp Edwards)

Joint Base Cape Cod, a Superfund site since 1989, sits atop Cape Cod's sole-source aquifer, where fuel spills, solvents and firefighting foam created groundwater plumes containing TCE, benzene and PFAS.

March Air Reserve Base

Groundwater contamination with TCE, PCE, jet fuel, and solvents at March Air Reserve Base in California has raised concerns about potential health effects for veterans and nearby residents.

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin

Fuels and solvents from helicopter and blimp operations at the former MCAS Tustin in California contaminated soil and groundwater with TCE and other VOCs, and Navy-led cleanup continues today.

Mather Air Force Base

Mather Air Force Base, a former navigator training installation near Sacramento, California, is a Superfund site where TCE and other solvents contaminated groundwater.

Naval Air Station Oceana

Decades of AFFF use at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach contaminated groundwater, and Navy sampling since 2016 has found PFAS in private drinking water wells near the master jet base and its Fentress outlying field.

Naval Station Treasure Island

The former Navy training station in San Francisco Bay hosted nuclear warfare academies whose radium and cesium-137 contamination has prompted an ongoing state-supervised cleanup as the island is redeveloped.

Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant Bethpage

TCE and other solvents from the Navy-owned, Grumman-operated Bethpage plant created Long Island's largest groundwater plume, now spanning more than 3,000 acres in Nassau County's aquifer.

Tinker Air Force Base

Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, an NPL Superfund site since 1987, has documented groundwater contamination from TCE, PCE, benzene and heavy metals tied to decades of aircraft overhaul work.

Travis Air Force Base

Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, California, an EPA Superfund site since 1989, has documented TCE, benzene, heavy metal and PFAS contamination in groundwater, soil and Union Creek.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, an EPA Superfund site since 1989, has documented TCE, solvent, and fuel contamination, plus PFAS linked to decades of AFFF firefighting foam use.

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, an Army testing installation since 1917, has documented solvent, heavy metal and chemical agent contamination and includes two EPA Superfund sites.

Castle Air Force Base

Castle Air Force Base, a former SAC training base near Merced, California, is an EPA Superfund site where TCE, other solvents, and PFAS have been documented in soil and groundwater.

Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant

Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant near Grand Island, Nebraska is a Superfund site where explosives and heavy metal contamination of groundwater and soil have raised potential health concerns.

Fort Detrick

Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland is home to an EPA Superfund site where TCE and PCE from buried laboratory wastes contaminated groundwater and nearby residential wells.

Fort Devens

Fort Devens, a former Army post in Massachusetts listed as a Superfund site in 1989, has documented TCE, benzene, PCB, heavy metal, and PFAS contamination.

Fort Dix (Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst)

Fort Dix in New Jersey, now part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, has a documented Superfund landfill with solvent and metal contamination as well as PFAS linked to firefighting foam.

Fort Riley

Fort Riley, a longtime Army post in Kansas, was added to the EPA Superfund list in 1990 after TCE, heavy metals, and other contaminants were found, and PFAS has since been detected on post.

George Air Force Base

George Air Force Base in Victorville, California, a closed fighter training base and EPA Superfund site, has documented TCE, PCE, benzene, jet fuel, and PFAS contamination.

Griffiss Air Force Base

Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York is a Superfund site where decades of maintenance and disposal operations left TCE, PCBs and heavy metals in soil and groundwater.

Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, a Superfund site since 1989, has documented radiation, PCB, heavy metal, and solvent contamination, with cleanup still unresolved.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord

Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington has documented TCE, solvent, petroleum, and PFAS contamination, and portions of the base are EPA Superfund sites.

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii has documented contamination from jet fuel, heavy metals, and solvents, and the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex is an EPA Superfund site.

Letterkenny Army Depot

Letterkenny Army Depot in Pennsylvania hosts two Superfund sites where solvents such as TCE, along with heavy metals and PCBs, contaminated soil and groundwater, and solvent plumes reached residential wells off post.

Loring Air Force Base

Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine is an EPA Superfund site where solvents, PCBs and fuels contaminated soil and groundwater during decades of bomber operations.

Marine Corps Air Station El Toro

TCE, PCBs, solvents, and jet fuel contaminated soil and groundwater at MCAS El Toro in California, a Superfund site where cleanup is expected to continue for decades.

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

Camp Pendleton, an EPA Superfund site since 1989, has documented PFAS, TCE, and solvent contamination tied to decades of waste disposal and firefighting foam use.

Naval Air Station Alameda

Former Navy airfield on San Francisco Bay where solvents, fuels, PCBs, radium, and heavy metals from decades of aircraft work led to a 1999 Superfund listing.

Former Naval Air Station Brunswick

Concerns about PFAS, firefighting foam, and legacy solvents at the former Naval Air Station Brunswick in Maine.

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove

Groundwater at the former NAS JRB Willow Grove in Pennsylvania tested at 329,500 ppt of combined PFOS and PFOA from firefighting foam, affecting area drinking water and prompting a Superfund cleanup.

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island

NAS Whidbey Island in Washington has documented PFAS, PFOS, PFOA, AFFF, and solvent contamination, and both Ault Field and the Seaplane Base have been EPA Superfund sites.

Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster

PFAS from firefighting foam and solvent contamination at the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster affected drinking water wells in surrounding Bucks County communities.

Norton Air Force Base

Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California operated from 1942 to 1994 and was placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1987 after TCE, PCBs, and other contaminants were found in soil and groundwater.

Pease Air Force Base

Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire, a former Strategic Air Command installation, is an EPA Superfund site where PFAS from firefighting foam, solvents, and jet fuel contaminated groundwater and a drinking water well.

Picatinny Arsenal

Picatinny Arsenal, a longtime Army munitions and armaments center in Morris County, New Jersey, is an EPA Superfund site with documented heavy metals, solvent, and PFAS contamination.

Plattsburgh Air Force Base

Former SAC bomber base in Plattsburgh, New York, where TCE, benzene, heavy metals and PFAS contamination led to a 1989 Superfund listing and ongoing cleanup.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington is an EPA Superfund site where heavy metals, PCBs, and asbestos have raised concerns about potential health risks for workers and veterans.

Redstone Arsenal

Redstone Arsenal, an Army installation near Huntsville, Alabama, is an EPA Superfund site where TCE, solvents, heavy metals, and PFAS have raised potential exposure concerns.

Rocky Mountain Arsenal

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a former Army chemical weapons and pesticide manufacturing site near Denver, was placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1987 amid concerns about solvents, heavy metals, and pesticide contamination.

Tobyhanna Army Depot

Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, a Superfund site listed in 1990, has documented solvent and PFAS contamination in groundwater, soils, and sediments.

Umatilla Chemical Depot

Years of munitions washout at Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon left explosives and heavy metals in soil and groundwater, leading to a Superfund cleanup.

McClellan Air Force Base

A former Air Force logistics hub near Sacramento, now a Superfund site contaminated with solvents, heavy metals, and PCBs.

Naval Air Station Jacksonville

A major Navy installation in Florida designated a Superfund site after chlorinated solvents reached soil and groundwater.

Fort Ord

A former Army training center on Monterey Bay, closed in 1994 and designated a Superfund site for soil and groundwater contamination.

Wurtsmith Air Force Base

A Cold War bomber base in Oscoda, Michigan, closed in 1993 and now a Superfund site with PFAS-contaminated groundwater.

Fort Campbell

Home of the 101st Airborne on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, where firefighting foam and industrial chemicals raised exposure concerns.

Joint Base San Antonio

The 2010 merger of Randolph AFB, Lackland AFB, and Fort Sam Houston, with exposure concerns spanning all three legacy installations.

Camp Lejeune

One of the largest Marine Corps bases in the country, and the site of one of the most serious drinking-water contaminations in U.S. history.

Fort Hood

A major Army training hub in Killeen, Texas, with concerns about PFAS, AFFF, PCBs, and asbestos exposure on base.

Fort Bragg

One of the world's largest Army installations, with documented concerns about PFAS and other contaminants affecting soldiers and families.

Fort Benning (formerly Fort Moore)

Georgia's infantry and armor training post, Fort Moore from 2023 to 2025, now Fort Benning again, with a history of contamination concerns.

Anniston Army Depot

An Alabama maintenance depot and EPA Superfund site with PCBs, solvents, and heavy metals documented in soil and groundwater.

Schofield Barracks

A historic Army post in central Oahu where asbestos, lead paint, and groundwater contaminants have raised health concerns.

Selfridge Air National Guard Base

A century-old Michigan air base where TCE, PFOA, and PFOS contamination has been linked to health risks for personnel and neighbors.