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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...

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 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 Letter Connects Agent Orange Component and Iraq War

November 15, 2014

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agent orange, Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry, burn pits, Iraq war veterans, military exposures, military families, Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health, Vietnam veterans

The chemicals from the burn pits and TCDD are what she blames for her husband’s transition from a trooper, protecting our streets daily to a man living with constant pain and countless hospital visits. “It’s constant medications and trips to the ER and calling...

Red Fridays – Burn Pits, the new Agent Orange

October 06, 2012

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afghanistan, agent orange, burnpits, department of defense, dioxin, Iraq, jet fuel, toxic exposures, veterans, veterans administration, Vietnam, war

In Viet Nam, it was called Agent Orange, and forty years later veterans exposed to this and other chemicals are still fighting for treatment and answers. In Afghanistan, they are called Burn Pits. The primary difference is the first was a weapon deployed against the...

Other Toxic Exposures: Families link burn pits to health woes, debt

February 08, 2012

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LeRoy Torres, 39, a Reserve captain and former Texas state trooper, was assigned to Joint Base Balad, Iraq, in 2008 and believes exposure to the camp’s open-air burn pits left him with debilitating respiratory problems. He can’t walk long distances, perform daily...

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

Researchers investigate respiratory health of deployed personnel during operations

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 Letter Connects Agent Orange Component and Iraq War

Red Fridays – Burn Pits, the new Agent Orange

Other Toxic Exposures: Families link burn pits to health woes, debt

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