Federal legislation signed into law in 2022 expanded VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances ...

introduced a provision in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act requiring the Pentagon to complete a study on K2 exposure within ... depleted uranium, burn pits and tetrachlorethylene ...

Mark Jackson, an Army CID at the time, landed on Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Air Base in Uzbekistan. After signing into the base, ...

A group of concerned citizens met at the Warrior Pavilion of Ken Ratliff Memorial Park in Oscoda on Saturday, May 31. The ...

Burn Pits 360's reach touches veterans all over the country. Notably, the organization played a big role in the passage of "The PACT Act" which gives veterans health benefits after exposure to ...

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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 ...

More than 3.5 million veterans suffering from exposure to toxic burn pits and Agent Orange will get their day on the Senate floor June 6 when lawmakers take up a bill granting medical treatment ...

A bipartisan bill would allow veterans with health issues caused by exposure to “forever chemicals ... including service members exposed to burn pits during Iraq and Afghanistan deployments ...

The Orange Heart Medal Project was founded in January 2018 as a 501c3 organization whose mission and purpose is to bring ...

The agents also have an “unknown degree of exposure” to malaria “despite taking the antimalarial as full efficacy of the medication is unknown currently,” she wrote. The use of burn pits ...

Nearby burn pits are used to dispose of trash and human waste, and the smog cloud makes it hard to breathe, sickening both ICE officers guarding the men and the detainees, the documents state.