Fort McClellan is the former home of the U.S. Army Military Police and U.S. Army Chemical Schools. Located in Anniston, Ala., it was one of the largest training posts the Army had to offer before the Environmental Protection Agency closed the fort down in 1999.

Countless brave men and women spilled blood, sweat and tears over the training grounds. Between 1933 and 1999, Fort McClellan was constantly exposed to major biochemical health hazards, including ionizing radiation and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Soldiers were laying in them on the firing range, they filled their canteens with them during “hydration formations,” and they breathed them in while they ran “Cardiac Hill.”

Soldiers at Fort McClellan were exposed to Arsenic, Lead, Mercury, Dioxins, PCB, TCE, VX nerve agent, Sarin nerve agent, Lewisite (Mustard Gas), and many other chemicals, too numerous to mention through the soil, drinking water and air.

Many of the Soldiers who were exposed have died or are terminally ill because of this. And they never suspected a thing. Todd Grange himself has serious medical conditions to include that he may lose both his feet, caused by his service at Ft McClellan and cannot get treatment at the V.A., even though he is eligible for VA benefits; for over a year each time going to the VA asking for a simple VA card and is told the system in Washington is down; starting right after he brought up his service at Ft McClellan.

No one knew except chemical giant Monsanto and they knew it for over 40 years.

In 1999, the EPA declared Fort McClellan to be a toxic site, and was federally mandated to be decontaminated. But that decontamination was only the beginning. In 2003, the city of Anniston sued Monsanto, and the city was awarded $700 million to help care for exposed residents. Soldiers stationed at Fort McClellan, however, were never advised of the suit. They were specifically excluded from it. The soldiers were left without a voice.

The only thing that the President, US House & Senate and the military has done is to stall on House Bill HR2052 that only makes a list of soldiers who served at Ft McClellan, nothing more.

Todd Grange, Independent Lobbyist, Veteran and Graduate of the Military Police School at Ft McClellan is now taking up the cause on behalf of all Soldiers’ who served at Ft McClellan.

Todd Grange is filing a Federal Civil law suit under the new RICO Civil Statutes, against Monsanto using the specific findings and filings in the City of Anniston V Monsanto and the find leved by the US Government against Chemical Giant Monsanto. The evidence is already on record with the Federal and State Courts and Federal Agencies, wherein Monsanto cannot deny the allegations as they are fact within the previous cases and agency findings.

Soldiers have a constitutional right to seek legal redress of the issues that will be filed in Federal Court as they are not bared by Res Judicata because they were specifically excluded from all other litigations against Monsanto.