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people in the old security curious a little. bit here we are now world version in a. little lower city on earth with an exploding very. big. place concept of burning trash and war is not new it is all this war itself the difference here was that this war was lasting for a decade and included hands thousands of troops and every person out to support the invasion of iraq and the war in afghanistan. where they were alleged rash and these huge open air heads. they burned everything creating this black plume of smoke that had been just bursting our satellite over is small the word of five cities. and you had people living in

barracks right next to this clune people working right next to it and now working with it with no protection whatsoever. for receiving more blasting the fire and we're going to have to make it instigated this way is a catastrophe in the making. at the start of the war in afghanistan. the military commanders on the ground realized that they had a big problem with the trash that was accumulating from the war each soldier was accumulating approximately nine pounds of trash a day on the battlefield they didn't know what to do with it so they came up with the idea through centcom which is central command decided to create burn pits to

burn the trash that was being accumulated. over that is is where the military during the war collected all their waste in one central location and sort of burying it they decided to burn it they burn everything that you can possibly think of what it took to be back. on. moon. moon. why we would burn less human waste. trash and. plastics and medical. supplies. to name anything that they wouldn't use anymore they would burn. at times they also had. body pipes. plastics chemicals paint batteries tires literally anything that could be disposed

of was thrown in there. and it would dump diesel. and then light it up. there was a blue smoke and the he's looked like the san francisco for the smell was extremely toxic very very putrid it burn your eyes burn your throat burn your nose i mean it was just no. dirty stinky. some days the. can talk of the smell of the burn ph and the sewage pit would literally make you would drop you to your knees and you'd vomit i mean it was it was that bad you knew. there was no protection. and not.

ok to give them a gas mask but i wasn't but i do now. in. my and i knew. it was more for a nuclear biological chemical. it was never mandatory for us to and. no safeguards were in place to protect the soldiers dog as a matter of fact they they would build the seas burn pits sometimes within three hundred meters from from where the soldiers were were actually quartered behaves in the smoke drifted over to where our trailers were and just kind of hung all day all the time twenty four seven right above you don't always smell the. plastic bird or buildings or the wood you know mel's. i mean.

it's just really an offensive putrid kind of a smell it's very hard to describe because when it was mixed with the smell of the sewage be it was just news just got awful your nose would burn your eyes would water your throat would burn during the course of the day you would you have to go and dust yourself off your hair your clothing and with all the ashes that were falling on us. news now we never complained. they say embrace the suck man. because to the work area we had initial briefing with are superior and we were told keep an eye on our people that you're going to get for they call the iraqi crowd everybody gets sick for the first couple of weeks atrocious. but not without a doubt within a week people were getting sick i really don't remember anybody questioning at that

time. the health effects that it would i mean absolutely when thinking about that and thinking they got it all control the war here you know certainly our own people wouldn't be doing anything knowingly to poising us but that turns out to be you know. not the case. these personnel would be exposed to a toxic soup of chemicals released into the atmosphere plastics and star riffle metals chemicals from paints and solvents petroleum and lubricants jet fuel and on exploded ordinance medical and other dangerous waste. here men are supposed to breathe clean air air is twenty one percent oxygen and seventy nine percent nitrogen with no air pollution are particles in the air and in particle air can trigger asthma and when you particles in an open air setting at

low temperature or low heat it generates thousands times more particles than using a. burning particles particularly for burning carcinogens exposed as a person when they need it and hail it sniff it get it on their skin and they get exposed to carcinogens which can cause cancer so burning with j.p. eight which is jet fuel low temperature will lead says benzene which is a carcinogen. i find it amazing that the military having a regulation for everything you didn't have any regulation in place for permit operations and those burn pits that were created in iraq and afghanistan whimpers from two thousand to two thousand and nine burning without any regulation at all didn't have regulation where they would be built how they would be constructed they didn't do any soil samples before they built the berm pits they didn't do any plume samples after the burn pits were operational for many many years. after nine eleven

i don't care they just wanted to keep on funding because they they had they won and they mad it right. here wanted to fight the war even now and here we can burn scarified we can burn certain things in open air so why weren't they allowed. when the soldiers to do it personally within three days i could feel it like something was wrong and it hit me real hard i went to search. for medication. and it biologics and for me it just wouldn't go away within fifteen days that i was there was even sicker i was pretty sick to hold a plane and when i came down i could be returned back to the states i knew different and the something was wrong. and that became the oh pill battle of trying to figure out what was wrong and how bad it was going to be i started developing

sinus problems me you know a lot of other guys me to get nasal sprays and stuff to try to alleviate that and i just had. sinus problems veterans were coming home they had stories to tell they came home they're experiencing all these health conditions they didn't know why these presumably very healthy men and women all of a sudden were walking around like old men and women not being able to run exercise the way they could so they started writing about it. rather than for the united states military it's open for rock exposed thousands of troops to toxic chemicals a mysterious illness is affecting veterans who were exposed to open burn pits which the u.s. military used in iraq and afghanistan to torture everything from batteries to body parts experts say the pouring out of these pits are toxic and dangerous so while

troops may survive the battle they may also be poisoned. in september two thousand and four. i know in. the v.a. clinic instead of seeing old caucasian men with meal chairs and oxygen who are in their eighty's. the entire composition of the waiting room changed. of young women and men of all ethnicities and they're all in their twenty's back from their first year long deployment in iraq. the typical service member came in with an inability to complete a two mile run within regulation time most of them had already had a traditional work up for pulmonary disease including x. rays c.t. scans primary function testing all of these studies returned normal or near normal in almost every case. it was subtle because these service members complained of

shortness of breath with exertion but their x. rays and pull me function tests indicated that they shouldn't have any disability itll that doctors are throwing up their hands and saying what would cause a twenty seven year all man to have the long. long journeys are a respiratory condition of an eighty five year old man and they started pointing to their exposure to these burnt heads in the fail to realize a lot of these guys and gals had been living around these pits for for their entire tour duty. hacking cough would go forward and then when you start bringing up different colors something trunk and general body weakness just trial data how bad did know for their head to be some explanation that led us to begin doing surgical lung biopsies to look for things that you might miss in

conventional testing. shows seemed wrong. but old ones just don't. i mean you get to shape out just to come out to it and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the one.

just shows patrolled by. enemy troop movements who can spot a little bit of the rhythm. and. troops of militants have joined forces. those groups knew just to clear their determination so for an independent islamic state in the philippines. after two months of fun. keeps finding hidden weapons and explosives and. areas where civilians used to live a daily occurrence. enough. noise . is a. walking dead.

to. the fishes says he doesn't. like one million people. killed people they. know no one's going to. if you think he's around in that and that's.

what he found was a series of veterans who had a q lung disease it's acute being irreversible. lung injury that he was able to find through long biopsies where he found these tiny little holes these tears and their lung tissue he saw enough of these veterans to come to his own conclusion that they could have only got this from a toxic exposure. to produce his career looking for this problem and he was able to discover it. and the diagnosis was constrictor prophylactics in english it's

a smaller we're used to see some of the lining of your lungs are destroyed if you have a perfectly healthy young soldier who's a nonsmoker goes over to iraq and afghanistan in contact with construction project way this that's really a big concern or we're clearly implicated. in the increased incidence of lung disease associated with deployment. video indeed decided they weren't going to send any more veterans his way anymore. i think dr. research in his study is a perfect example of. the via a. trying to avoid the issue and trying and trying not to have to pay the compensations to veterans. that they deserve he has the proof he has everything they are and they still will not even address his research.

there were many people in the apartment of defense that couldn't accept these findings in you can speculate that they couldn't expect the that they couldn't accept these findings because of the potential broad implication the idea that maybe there was a new asian orange. this deployment the government is looking down the road at billions of dollars and health care costs that they will be responsible for and i believe that they're doing everything they can to stave that off. on a. track

. and convince of the benefits are causing ls along the soldiers this is a new disease we call this iraq afghanistan war long injury some of the more severe cases entail that all the positive longs so it is a multi factorial exposure to the symptoms or anywhere from from respiratory issues some mild to severe to rare forms of cancers leukemias it's a wide. of symptoms that people are experiencing if you really look into it and do the research you can make these symptoms directly to the burn pits my diagnosis is one that started out as seen oit sinus plasma side toma if you can say that in one

word which is a four point four centimeter tumor right here in my head that started out as a solitary plasma psych toma it was biopsied and found to be that. will automatically flip down with some he tells you have a tumor in your head underneath your brain ah you want to know. what's going on with that and i didn't know anything about this burn pit exposure thing or nothing until after my diagnosis. so the first thing i did was i ran to the internet and i started researching this particular issue and it kept coming back to the same thing what causes plasma psycho toxic exposure. when he first got back i mean he was healthy he was out the it was probably not even less after. a year that he came back they started.

the tonsils got swelling and in the. end he would bleed. he would believe from his mouth. i would have chunks of tissue from out of his mind and he would spit it out and i believe it was two days a day after christmas when he was on told that it lists cancer it's. really really ill. discuss radio. shows vomiting feces and everything else and. when they took out the gallbladder just to be safe one. when they're trying to remove the gall bladder they took a biopsy of the two but that was blocking my lower bowel and the little mackenzie. as you know beau biden vice president biden son served in the military and he served in iraq and she was in perfect health shortly or three count home within

nine months he started getting sick he had a brain tumor. and she eventually died from the brain tumor the same type of brain tumor that many of these soldiers that are sick from the four inputs are complaining about same type of cancer there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that points to you know his death may have been caused from the burn pits. but. it just didn't make sense it didn't make sense that my young healthy husband had cancer and then it turned out there were two types of cancer how was it not the burn pits it's not a type of cancer for

a young twenty seven year old guy to have because first he didn't smoke he never smoked he's not a drinker and usually that's the type of cancer that older gentleman who smoked for a long period of their lives should tobacco or drink the doctor he said it was chemical exposure. or the troops are healthy or they don't go. in they're coming back in there not a lot of more healthy anymore. it's a challenge but for other people it's it's been. turns out the military knew all along. that this toxic exposure could very well her the troops living by these burn pits lieutenant colonel curtis in two thousand and six had written a memo saying the pollution there was dangerous that it would be causing health

hazards to live and work near the pits it was completely buried it's calm no one no one took it seriously deborah they never addressed his issues soldiers on the ground had no idea about colonel curtis's findings and his concern us was never shared with anybody remember which is completely buried. they knew back in the continue to free can do it. even then would you do that we'll willingly accept. being shot. taken prisoner. signed up to. poison. by room. there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government but there was any connection between burn pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from clearly the cat

was out of the bag the two thousand and six memo had basically said that the military was aware that the pollution levels around the pits were at an unsafe unhealthy level now the deal would be after them and always told wished attempted to downplay it they had their own study. commissioned in two thousand and eleven with the institutes of health and medicine that study had said that they could not find a connection between the pollution levels around the pits and the health effects that the veterans were experiencing. those studies which were very and. up did not identify an increased risk of respiratory symptoms or disease at locations with burn pits as opposed to no burn pits. the army did their own study and years later and it was it was completely flawed for several reasons one it only

studied one burn pit out of two hundred seventy three that were located in iraq and afghanistan they didn't have prior plume samples because it was done done the whole study was a complete. fraud. contest for snow and albany new york and july. you may not find snow in albany new york. but that does not mean that it does not snow in albany new york and he was sent out monitors when. you may not intact burning trash the monitors are too far away from them burning you may not attack a part of if you don't put in a monitor until after the burning stuff you may not detect burning any common sense tells you there was a lot of bad there. is no. can you say.

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