RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif. -- A Rancho Bernardo couple has begun a campaign for federal legislation regarding health care for military veterans. While they have no complaints about the care and treatment afforded by the Veterans' Administration, Aaron Dial and his fiancée Heidi Christ think there should be more screenings and warnings.

Dial had been overseas for more than a year, serving in Jordan and Baghdad with the military police. Two years after his return to the U.S., he was having trouble breathing.

"They found a tumor; a mass the size of an eggplant," said Christ.

Dial told of the test results, "I was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, as well as T-cell Hodgkins disease."

The Department of Veterans Affairs gave him 100 percent disability and found his illness directly related to his military service.

Dial said when guns were fired he was exposed to depleted uranium that coated the ammo. "The depleted uranium goes into a powder form and it's in the soil. Anything from dust storms to Humvees and tanks going over the soil can kick that up and it can be inhaled."

He said he suffers from memory loss and had issues with his balance and sight. Now after more than two years of chemotherapy and a month of cranial radiation treatment, he is in remission.

Dial and Christ are working to get "Aaron's Law" passed by Congress, extending the health care window for returning veterans from two to five years and more proactively alerting them to the risk of carcinogens.

"Make them aware this could possibly become an epidemic, similar to the Gulf War, Agent Orange," said Christ.

Only a handful of servicemen and women have been afflicted as has Dial so far, but Rep. Duncan Hunter said such a law could prove very valuable.

"We need good screening coming out. We need to make sure our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines go through that, but they also need to know what's available to them," said Hunter.

Dial and Christ plan to be married in October, and both eventually want to work in the medical field.