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Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom

Vets Can Finally Sue Contractors for Cancer Caused by War

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

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

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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