Join the Million Veteran Program to take the survey today
VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP) recently launched the Military Experiences and Toxic Exposures Survey to learn more about the ways military experiences and toxic exposures affect health. MVP, VA’s largest research effort, is studying health conditions that matter to Veterans, including mental health, heart health, cancer, tinnitus and more. All Veterans are invited to join MVP and complete the survey.
What does the Military Experiences and Toxic Exposures Survey ask about?
The survey asks questions about:
- Your military service and deployment history.
- Occupation(s) in and out of the military.
- Military job tasks and deployment activities.
- Exposure to toxic or hazardous substances while deployed.
- Exposure to loud sounds.
- Combat experiences.
- Lifestyle and home exposures.
By completing this survey, you can help researchers better understand how to screen for, detect, prevent and treat health conditions associated with military experiences and exposures. This survey is for health research purposes and will not impact your disability benefits or your access to VA health care.
How do I take the Military Experiences and Toxic Exposures Survey?
All Veterans are invited to join the Million Veteran Program and take the survey.
To join MVP today, visit www.mvp.va.gov, click “Sign in” and then “Get started.”
Veterans who are already part of MVP can take the survey using the following steps:
- Visit www.mvp.va.gov and click “Sign in.”
- Choose a secure VA partner to sign in.
- Once you are signed in, select “Surveys” and then “Continue.”
- Click “Toxic Exposures Survey” icon.
- Click “Start the survey.”
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How stupid does the VA have to be for it to start getting things right. It’s not just a VA it’s pretty much the whole government and the dod because you don’t need a program like this to know about toxic exposure. The dod making Agent Orange 25 times stronger then the manufacturers recommended strength shows how stupid the military is and how uncaring they are about their warriors in putting such things as agent orange and anything else over the years that has created all the health problems for the veterans. I love Vietnam veteran and I know about agent orange and such but I’ve never studied about the other wars but I’ve heard things so it’s just ridiculous. If the DOD and military would get just this one thing right and not using such things in wartime and not having enough materials for like burn pits and all of that kind of stuff then they would go a long way in preventing health problems for veterans instead of a stupid wasteful money study such as this except for they’re probably going to try and figure out ways how to use this study to screw a veteran out of military benefits because that’s the kind of experiences that I’ve had and I’m owed a lot of money from the VA because I should have gotten my 100% all the way back to 2011 when I first started my claim and I should have gotten it even before that because all of us veterans should have been told about the ability to do claims for things that happened to us while we were in service when we got out or even while we were still in service as normal educational process but that never happened to me and I’ve talked with my brother who was a lifer in the military and he was never told but he got out around 1990 or so so I don’t know if they’re doing it now or not but it’s just so wrong what the VA has done and I still doing to US veterans like denying older people like myself that can’t get down to the VA to travel 50 miles or almost 50 miles 48.3 miles so I’m under the 50 mi so they make me come to the VA Dental clinic at least once a year in order to go to a community Care dentist afterwards for treatment and I’ve lost teeth because of this situation and it’s just not right and I know other veterans probably have had it even worse than me so how about doing some research where it really counts and not do articles like this stupid thing
If only my DNA could be used! As a person with a Bone Marrow Transplant from an unknown donor, I can’t provide their DNA in my blood sample. WHY can’t you use other DNA samples? This exclusion of those with a BMT/Unknown Donor removes many veterans from this valuable research…and makes it’s limitations an example of misguided research! My DNA, my experience and my details are important as a veteran, and skewing results that exclude a major set of people may make this research too biased for acceptable scientific practices. Anyone citing this MVP research now has an asterisk attached for this poor exclusion practice as it no longer relates to ALL VETERANS equally!
The Air Force sent me to a toxic waste base closed in 1989 and the VA doesn’t even acknowledge public record. I was stationed at Griffiss AFB from Feb 1985 to Jun 1986 and worked in the Nuclear Trailer Maintenance shop and Weapons Storage Area. How many toxins beside Trichloroethane & PD680 was I exposed to?
The Air Force sent me to a toxic waste base closed in 1989 and the VA doesn’t even acknowledge public record. I was stationed at Griffiss AFB from Feb 1985 to Jun 1986 and worked in the Nuclear Trailer Maintenance shop and Weapons Storage Area. How many toxins beside Trichloroethane & PD680 was I exposed to?
most l likely already regist
Why? VA will just keep ignoring me begging for help with chronic fatigue, cognitive, and digestive issues even if they find a cure for it all hiding in the data. They do all they can to avoid honoring the contract we signed. I can’t fathom why, other than greed and cruelty.
Why join all the VA Doctors never heard of MVP or is it a black members only?
I already belong to MVP, and have been a participant for at least 3 years or more.
Most everyone in Vietnam was subjected to one or many toxic agents.
I agree. It came to my attention a few years ago that all Navy personnel were exposed to agent orange in their drinking water if nothing else due to the desalinization processes inability to remove it. Inhaling diesel fumes constantly emitted by Naval ships may have contributed to contracting Rheumatoid Arthritis… Maybe even Tinnitus, or that may be due to loud and/or constant noise? Haven’t seen any cures for these issues yet.
Yes, hopefully this survey shows something that can help the vets from the problem they have any information is better than none. Keep on trying to see if we can solve all our pros problems.