Navy Lt. Cmdr. Shannon Bencs, a former fuels director at Red Hill, has been called a whistleblower for trying to flag the dysfunction at the fuel storage facility.

This month marks three years since Red Hill fuel contaminated a drinking water well that supplied water to 90,000 people at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

Bencs currently serves as a supply officer at Marine Corps Base Hawaiʻi after her superiors transferred her out of Red Hill following her complaints about the operation.

A previous after-incident report indicated she was the last remaining person with fuel expertise, and she told us she was cut out of the emergency response.

"I was cut out of communication, so that's definitely something that could happen in the future, again, by senior officers making the calls. Even though there's documentation that the fuel director is in charge with the emergency response personnel and the Navy on-scene coordinator, even me and that Navy on-scene coordinator person was cut out of the game throughout this spill response," she said about the initial May 2021 spill.

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She affirmed she feels some vindication with the latest Department of Defense Inspector General's report. Bencs said she was interviewed by the IG investigators and hopes she helped them understand the systemic problems she tried to flag to her superiors and others.

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