Two Pacific lawmakers are pushing the federal government to allow service members to seek compensation for toxic exposures connected to the Red Hill water crisis.

U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda (D, Hawaii) and U.S. Rep. James Moyland (R, Guam) wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Navy Secretary John Phelan, dated Wednesday, in which they said, “we strongly believe that the Navy should compensate every service member and civilian for the harms that they suffered and continue to suffer due to fuel exposure from the Red Hill leaks.”

Last summer several military families took on the government in a bellwether case in Honolulu’s Federal District Court that set the stage for more eventually receiving compensation. But only civilians — the spouses and children of service members — recei

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