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

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

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 ...

Five more areas of conflict have been added to acknowledge the exposure and treatment to Agent Orange. The VA has added services for Gulf War burn pit victims [respiratory damages]. They have ...

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“We understand constrictive bronchiolitis is difficult to diagnose without invasive procedures,” reads the April letter ... and a vocal advocate for burn-pit exposure victims.

The letter was sent to the Majority and Minority leadership ... in the final version of this year’s NDAA,” the lawmakers wrote. “[The Reducing Exposure to Burn Pits Act] builds upon the PACT Act’s ...

Raul Ruiz of Maryland celebrated the inclusion of their Reducing Exposure to Burn Pits Amendment in this year’s Senate ... please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you ...

After his service, Wieners questioned a potential connection between Robert's bout with stage 4 lung cancer and exposure to burn pits ... got a benefit rejection letter instead.

Thankfully legislation has finally passed to include burn pit exposure within VA medical coverage. Getting injured through breathing polluted air while serving is no less harmful than getting shot ...