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 ...

Danny and his doctors said it was the result of toxic chemicals he was exposed to in burn pits while on tour in places like Kuwait. He served from 1976 to 2004. His close friend Garry DuFour ...

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 ...