Comment:  Quotes are purposely out of order.  The ACES Act is now law.  Yeah for the aircrews.  Will Missileers be next in having a new independent cancer study made into law?

See the earlier USA Today post where discussion concerns getting what's wrong figured out now before new facilities are made for Sentinel to avoid making the same mistake.

Also follow-on to this post is Sentinel is off pause and on again.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/aviator-missileer-cancer-rates/

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Congress may also pursue more data on the link between cancer and work in the nuclear missile community. An amendment to the House’s annual defense policy bill calls for the National Academies to independently review the findings of the Air Force’s missile community cancer study as well as to run its own study of the occupational health and safety hazards facing Airmen at Minuteman III missile facilities. Those findings are due 18 months after the bill becomes law.

A complementary provision in the Senate’s version of the bill would require the Air Force to deep clean the underground crew capsules where Airmen operate ground-based nuclear weapons in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Colorado every five years. The scrubs would continue until the launch control centers are decommissioned as the new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missiles replace the Minuteman III fleet in the coming years.

Those hardened bunkers received their first intensive cleaning in 2014 after decades of around-the-clock use. A 2023 review of potential carcinogens at ICBM facilities also recommended each launch control facility be deep cleaned.

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On July 21, Congress passed the Aviators Cancer Examination Study (ACES) Act, which prompts the nonprofit National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to use VA and Pentagon data to determine how often active-duty military aircrews are diagnosed with cancer and how often their cases are fatal.

Pilots, navigators, weapons system and aircraft system operators, and any other crew members who regularly flew in fixed-wing aircraft—like loadmasters or medics—would be considered under the study.