WASHINGTON
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced several steps to expand access to VA benefits for Veterans who served at Karshi-Khanabad (K2) base in Uzbekistan after Sept. 11, 2001, as well as their survivors.
These steps include: ■ Making chronic multisymptom illness a presumptive condition for K2 Veterans: VA plans to take steps to consider Veterans who served in Uzbekistan as Persian Gul…