The top issue cited was burn pits as mentioned by just ... a claim for disability benefits. The letter said it was sent because he had reported a toxic exposure at his screening, Kenna added.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry in June 2014 to better understand the long-term health effects of exposure to burn pits and other ...

But burn pit exposure was not at the time recognized as a service-related disability. Not only was he not entitled to benefits from the Veterans Administration, his superiors at the Texas ...

The president has said he believes the brain cancer that killed his son Beau at age 46 in 2015 stemmed from exposure to burn pits while he served in Iraq. After he was sent to Iraq in 2008 ...