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 ...

"There is and will continue to be a need for burn pits during contingency operations," Petraeus wrote back to Feingold in a letter provided ... sick as a result of exposure to fumes at Balad ...

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 ...

The lawsuits are the first coordinated effort by plaintiffs to extract damages for the claimed health effects from the burn pits. The military has acknowledged the concerns but said its own test ...

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 ...