The impact of VA Secretary Collins' staffing cuts remains hazy, not unlike the downwind side of a burn pit, Dan Clare of DAV argues in this op-ed. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) In 2008, I left Balad Air ...

“Like, I was coughing up rubber.” When he was stationed in Djibouti, he says the burn pits, at one point, were filled with the bodies of goats that died on the way from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia.

Military burn pits were used as a means of waste disposal ... 1990 or Afghanistan, Djibouti, Syria, or Uzbekistan on or after September 11, 2001." The registry is meant to provide more ...

Specified regions in the Middle East and South West Asia with burn pits after August 2, 1990 Afghanistan or Djibouti on or after September 11, 2001 You’re eligible to participate even if you don ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has overhauled its registry for veterans exposed to burn pits and other airborne hazards overseas, working with the Defense Department to include 4.7 million ...

Burn pits are large areas where tons of waste products (including ... or Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Syria, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, or Yemen from September 11, 2001, to the present. Even if you ...

Marine veteran Patrick McCaffrey of Selden never gave much thought to the football field-sized burn pits roaring just 50 yards from his small outpost in Iraq from 2007 through 2011. Tires.

10:47 Veteran says Canada lags behind U.S. on toxic burn pit protections for soldiers The effects of serving in a war zone can linger with veterans long after they end their tour of duty and an ...

The law seeks to provide an easier path to health care and benefits for veterans who served near open-air burn pits, which were ... new review include Somalia, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon ...

The original story about the 20-year legacy of the burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan was published by Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim of the Washington Post on March 18, 2023. Let’s look at what we ...

Farmers would return home with soot streaks on their forearms and stories about what soldiers had tipped into the burn pit that day: batteries, human waste, plastic ration packs, even refrigerators.