As Washington refocuses on the issue of burn pits—waste fires used extensively in Afghanistan and Iraq which emitted toxic smoke that later sickened troops—Military Times is republishing our ...

routine garbage and clouds of muck that came off the big burn pit at Camp Victory and other U.S. bases in Iraq. For more on his testimony before Congress and the DoD response, see this Military ...

he was devastated in 2012 to lose his job as a consequence of toxic poisoning from a military waste dump – known as a ‘burn pit’ - while serving in the U.S. Army Reserve in Iraq. Today ...

Two Michigan Republicans voted against the 2022 PACT Act, which expanded health care benefits to military veterans. A $600,000 federal grant will help state and local officials work to prevent veteran ...

The thousands of U.S. military personnel and private contractors whose health was compromised by the dense black smoke of burn pits — and ... military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan — are ...

(AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File) (CN) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has granted 1 million claims from people who developed health issues after exposure to burn pits and toxic chemicals while on ...