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US military personnel dispose of rubbish at a burn pit in Afghanistan in 2012. (US Department of Defense/Cpl. Alfred V. Lopez)The US operated more than 200 open air pits on its military bases ...

After he was sent to Iraq in 2008, Beau Biden served at Balad Air Force Base, where as much as 200 tons of waste was burned every day in one of the country's largest burn pits, according to ...

Reyes says ash from the burn pits would fill the air. “We used to call it the Iraq Crud. And when we were in Afghanistan, especially in Bagram, where they had a big pit, we called it the Afghan ...

Veterans in the highest tertile of burn pit exposure (340 days or more) had a 10% higher odds of asthma, a 22% higher odds of COPD, and a 10% higher odds of hypertension when compared with those ...

Smoke billows in from all sides as Army Sgt. Richard Ganske, 84th Combat Engineer Battalion, pushes a bulldozer deep into the flames of a burn pit at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2004.

The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to expand healthcare and disability benefits to some 3.5 million former U.S. service members poisoned by toxic substances from waste burning pits ...

Senior Airman Frances Gavalis, 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron equipment manager from Kirtland Air Force Base, tosses unserviceable uniform items into a burn pit on March 10, 2008 ...

A giant plume of fire rises from an open waste detonation near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan in 2013. ... Images from 2015 show the expansive burn pit at Joint Base Balad. The burn pit, ...

An airman tosses used uniforms into a burn pit at Joint Base Balad in Iraq in March 2008. (Senior Airman Julianne Showalter/Air Force) Burn pits are well-known within the military community, but ...

A member of the 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron tosses unserviceable uniform items into a burn pit at Balad Air Base in Iraq, March 10, 2008. U.S. Air Force Thomas left the Marine ...