Posted on Oct 26, 2016

DoD Isn’t Doing Enough To Understand Burn Pit Exposure Effects, Report Says

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Ah! I love the smell of burning shit in the morning. Did it, smelled it, hated it.

The Government Accountability Office says the Pentagon hasn’t made enough progress in the last five years.
The Pentagon needs to study the long-term health effects of exposure to the chemicals inhaled from burn pits at its overseas military bases, the Government Accountability Office says in a report.

DoD Isn’t Doing Enough To Understand Burn Pit Exposure Effects, Report Says

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Burning shitters is basic, this a little more than that, we had no place to put trash, and you know us, we don't leave trash around. We had to dig these a burn all items like plastic, and Lithium batteries got dropped in the pits. You have to remember in the beginning there was nothing, and the big FOB's were not around. WE went in with just enough stuff to move through the country, Maneuver Warfare for the first month and half, give or take. You get to a LSA site and dig dive holes and Burn pits, that is when every one dumped all there stuff, with no controls on what was dumped. I now believe a couple of times when our Chem Alarms went off, it was the burn pits. Now keep in mind this was the Fight moving through Iraq, and then after Baghdad, still lived in the rough, slept under stars,and or Truck, and Gun trucks, then moved into old Blown out or looted Iraqi compounds. In the early days it was like beyond thunder dome stuff, trucks abandoned, looted or destroyed by us, in place with all critical EQUIP taken out. The big FOB's everyone saw on the News didn't start going up until late June, Keep in mind we crossed LOD on 19th March,So for about 5 or 6 months nothing not even Hot Chow, just MRE's

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CPO (Join to see), Its as bad as AO. No telling what you guys were breathing in. Did these burn pits include human waste?

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SGT (Join to see) - Not that I know of the ones I was around NO, but who knows we had 100's of camps before the Big FOB's, they did have Mortuary Affairs, that had the the proper Equipment, to handle that. I hate to say this, but I didn't think twice because I was in Desert Storm, when all the Oil Fields were set on fire. I just thought it was same old crap. You also have to remember he did same thing in 2003,down south where we crossed the Berm, and Oil wheels were set on Fire. We were pretty good on turning Bodies over too Iraqi's. We were fixing bridge going into Baghdad, had some dead Iraqi's KIA, and Marines with us turned them over when the Iraqi's came to collect them, and this was when Fighting was going on. Yes I think it is bad as AO, we have NO clue, just like you guy's. Crazy how things repeat themselves.

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CPO (Join to see) - I'm learning, by being on RP, that wars are wars. Different techniques but the same results. When going into foreign lands, you're at the mercy of their surroundings. After being there a while, some things are figured out how to make life easier. But, where there are humans, and animals, there's going to be body waste, and that has to be gotten rid of somehow. Why can't it be buried really deep instead of burning it? I have the vision that y'all are out in the boonies where nobody lives when you are at your AO, and it will eventually rot away. Has that been tried? After our burns, we loaded the drums and took them to a pre dug pit where the poo was dumped. Wherever we ou AO was, that's what was done with the waste.

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