The Torchlight Initiative
Examining cancers and OTHER DISEASES, ILLNESSES, AND disorders within the
AIR FORCE Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Community
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The Torchlight Initiative exists to give a voice to the ICBM Community and to those impacted by cancers and other illnesses that disproportionately impact our community.
Our advocacy led to multiple ICBM cancer data analyses, early cancer detection, early diagnosis, ICBM cancer awareness, environmental hazard documentation, threat mitigation efforts, Congressional support, and VA support for families and sick team members. Most of all, our initiative has brought together a community of transparent, honest, and proactive voices that demand accountability.
Your donations allow this small team of veterans the honor of continuing to advocate for you, document our cancers and illnesses through our independent registry, and to demand accountability to mitigate the risks and take care of the service members and their families.
Thank you.
About The Torchlight Initiative
Torchlight is a non-government organization composed of current and former Air Force ICBM community members and their families.
Our mission is to address health issues of vital interest to the ICBM community, specifically, to address the higher rates of cancer and other diseases, illnesses, and disorders amongst those that operated, maintained, supported, or protected ICBM delivery systems.
We will advocate for this community and strive to ensure former and current community members receive education, health monitoring and care, and when appropriate, VA claim service connection.
IN THE NEWS
Beyond the PACT Act: Addressing the Legacy of Toxic Exposure at Domestic Military Installations
Members of this Torchlight team will die from our exposures as a casualties of this war, and we will join the Airmen and Guardians who gave their lives before us. But not today. And not without speaking and fighting for our fellow service members and families who have sacrificed so much.
Independent Study Raises Alarm About Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma at Malmstrom Air Force Base | APR 25, 2025
A new independent academic study examining a form of blood cancer among those who served at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, has found that service members were diagnosed at younger ages compared to the wider population, a notable revelation as that community fears their cancers and illnesses could be tied to their service.
PCBs At Missile Wings Signed Memorandum | MAY 06, 2024
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) sampling results at the three active missile wings (Malmstrom AFB, MT; Francis E. Warren AFB, WY; and Minot AFB, ND) as well as Vandenberg SFB, CA.
Cancer rate among Air Force missileers prompts questions, concerns. | MAR 26, 2024
Service members who worked at nuclear weapons facilities seek answers.
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Our Vision
Education/Awareness/Monitoring
Torchlight strives to educate and build awareness on the health issues impacting our community, and encourages the DoD to proactively monitor and screen the community.
Registry AND STUDIES
Torchlight maintains a self-reported registry of Air Force ICBM missile community diagnoses of cancer and other diseases, illnesses and disorders, to support and inform any data gathered by a formal study. Torchlight is willing and available to inform current and future study designs and would encourage participation of third-party medical and environmental experts.
Documentation
The Air Force ICBM missile community’s permanent medical records should consistently and thoroughly document all toxic exposures related to service. We will advocate for our former/current/future missile community members and their families to ensure they receive proper medical care and earned compensation.
THE REGISTRY
This is a DATABASE managed by a NGO
We are collecting this information to support or supplement studies commissioned by proper authorities. Please feel free to voluntarily register if you or a military family member are/were part of the Air Force ICBM missile community and have a diagnosed cancer or other disease, illness and/or disorder.
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Real Heroes. Real Stories.
On the battlefield, concealment is a survival skill | Off that battlefield,
transparency enables survival | Through the telling of each story, we are united as one | In the telling of the collective, we find our own.
These are our stories. This is our story. | A. Dietz
CAPTAIN JEFF KUBALA 01/10/1968 - 04/16/2024
Diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Tumor
2021, at the age of 53.
DEAN SHOCKLEY
Diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme
2022, at the age of 57.
JACKIE
Diagnosed with NHL/B-Cell/Follicular
2018, at the age of 42.
JASON BOSWELL
Diagnosed with Cutaneous T-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
2015, at the age of 42.
DR. ROB CALDERON
Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
2000, at the age of 28.
MONTE WATTS
Diagnosed with NHL/Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
January 2022
Ryan Luecke
Diagnosed with NHL/Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
May 2020, at the age of 45.
DAVID HOLLIS
Diagnosed with Seborrheic Dermatitis & Pruritus.
Captain Jason Leo Jenness 04/06/1970-07/22/2001
Diagnosed with NHL/Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma.
DANIEL C. SEBECK
Diagnosed with NHL/Mantle Cell Lymphoma.
30 Sep 2022 at age of 42.
MAJOR MARK HOLMES 12/21/1982-05/12/2020
Diagnosed with NHL/Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma