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Ailing Vets Sue, Say Toxic Burn Pits Cost Them Their Health

According to plaintiffs’ claims in the consolidated case, the contractors created “literally hundreds” of burn pits at military bases throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. They say the health repercussions from the burn pits are like the effects of Agent Orange...

Traumatic brain injury is pervasive in both civilian and military populations. In fact, TBI in the civilian population is eight times as frequent as breast cancer, AIDS, spinal-cord injury, and multiple sclerosis combined. According to the Center for Deployment Psychology, an...

Army Denies it Sought to Hide Troops’ Chemical Exposure in Iraq

April 04, 2015

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Army, Chemical Exposures, Chemical Warfare, chemical weapons, DOD, Iraq veterans, Iraq war, military exposures, military families, mustard gas, sarin gas, VA, veterans children, Veterans Health

The Pentagon denies it deliberately tried to hide the fact that U.S. troops were exposed to chemical agents, including mustard and sarin, during the Iraq War. The Army on Friday apologized for its failure to properly care for Americans exposed to the chemical agents, promised to...

Researchers investigate respiratory health of deployed personnel during operations

February 25, 2015

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Afghanistan veterans, Airborne Hazards, Army, Dust, Iraq veteran, medical research, military exposures, military families, OEF, OIF, OND, Respiratory Diseases, Smoke, STAMPEDE

Military personnel who deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, or OIF, Operation Enduring Freedom, or OEF, or Operation New Dawn, or OND, were commonly exposed to airborne hazards such as dust and smoke, Army Medicine researchers say. Some may have developed respiratory diseases...

The result is Trooper, a beautiful, heart-wrenching film that offers far more than empathy. It dares viewers to explore a disturbing corner of the Iraq War, a realm that no film has yet to touch: the blight of depleted uranium poisoning, which has infected thousands of Iraq...

Pentagon looking for soldiers exposed to chemicals in Iraq

February 10, 2015

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Abandoned Chemical Weapons, Chemical Exposures, DOD, Gulf Wars, Iraq, mustard agents, Mustard rounds, nerve agent sarin, Pentagon, secret casualties, Taji, The New York Times, warfare agents

The Department of Defense is contacting service members and veterans who may have been exposed to chemicals — warfare agents such as mustard agents or sarin — during Operation Iraqi Freedom. This effort is in response to the recent reports in The New York Times, most...

The suits say KBR’s actions resulted in illnesses and death. That seems like an obvious assumption: In the United States, we are not allowed to burn trash in large open pits because it’s a health hazard. Troops can tell you. It settled like smog over their housing areas, leaving...

Military health: The insurmountable gulf

“From the beginning, the VA has refused to honestly face the problems that face veterans,” said Joel Graves, a Gulf War veteran who until last year had served on a committee advising the VA on research priorities related to the illness. Graves and others contend that the agency...

BR soldier’s death after return from Iraq sparked legislation

December 13, 2014

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Agent Orange Registry, burn pits, open-air burn pits, Operaiton New Dawn, Operation Enduring Freedome, Operation Iraqi Freedome, Staff Sgt. William Austin Daniel Military Airbone Hazards and OPen Burn Pit Registry Act of 2014

Austin Daniel died of heart failure on Sept. 7, 2009, leaving behind a 26-year-old widow and 22-month-old Anna Lee, his mother wrote in a military blog discussing burn pit issues. On May 28, Gov. Bobby Jindal signed SB538, authored by Sen. John Smith, known as the Staff Sgt....

VA Waitlist Scandals: These boots were made for waiting

December 11, 2014

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afghanistan, agent orange, agent orange legacy, burn pits, Gulf War, gulf war illness, Iraq war, lung disorders, military exposures, military families, veterans children, Vietnam veterans, Vietnam War

War is expensive to wage, and it takes a lot of money to heal physical and psychological wounds. Unwilling to face up to the true costs of modern warfare, the government has systematically tried to weasel out of covering the full costs of care for injured and ill veterans for...

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Ailing Vets Sue, Say Toxic Burn Pits Cost Them Their Health

10 Myths About Traumatic Brain Injury

Army Denies it Sought to Hide Troops’ Chemical Exposure in Iraq

Researchers investigate respiratory health of deployed personnel during operations

Trooper Shines Much-Needed Spotlight on Iraq Vets and Uranium Poisoning

Pentagon looking for soldiers exposed to chemicals in Iraq

Vets Can Finally Sue Contractors for Cancer Caused by War

Military health: The insurmountable gulf

BR soldier’s death after return from Iraq sparked legislation

VA Waitlist Scandals: These boots were made for waiting

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