Soldiers, Fort Bragg, and Asbestos
The Army said that Fort Bragg paratroopers assigned to clean a barracks storage room were exposed unknowingly to asbestos, but a soldier's father said that the military should have known about the material.
Medical tests showed that up to 10 soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division were exposed to asbestos but not at dangerous levels, a division spokesman, Master Sgt Thomas Clementson, said yesterday.
Officials said that the exposure occurred when soldiers in the 1st Brigade Combat team scraped floor tiles and carried out debris during the past three weeks.
Division surgeon Lt Col. Bryan Sleigh said that the Army will monitor the health of the soldiers once a year for five years and every five years thereafter.
Air testing showed no hazardous asbestos levels in the room.