Anyone who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., between Aug. 1, 1953, and Dec. 31, 1987, can sue the federal government for the harm they suffered if they used the U.S. Marine Corps military base’s water. Although the base opened in the early 1940s, it wasn’t until the early 1980s, some 40 years later, that officials confirmed that chemicals were present in the water everyone used while on base.