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idea through centcom which is central command decided to create burn pits to burn the trash that was being accumulated. over that is as were the military during the war collected all their waste in one central location and for the burying that they decided to burn it and they burn everything in the us where i think i wanted to be back. in the room. while we would burn with human waste. trash and. plastics and medical. supplies. to move. anything that they would in use anymore they would burn. at times they had. body parts.
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plastics chemicals paint batteries tires literally anything that could be disposed of was thrown in there. and it we were dumped these. days of laying out. and then lighting up the. heat. there was a blue smoke and the he's looked like the san francisco for the smell was extremely toxic very very putrid burn your eyes burn your throat burn your nose i mean it was just nasty dirty stinky. some days that. didn't talk of the smell of the burn ph and the sewage pit would literally make you would drop your knees and you'd vomit i mean it was it was that bad. noonan. there is no
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protection no man. i'm in. and not. too many moon at a day to get them in a gas mask but i was afraid that you need. to hear. and i knew. there was more for nuclear biological chemical. and i knew. it was never mandatory for us to learn that. 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 they hazan the smoke drifted over to where our trailers were it just kind of hung all day all the time twenty four seven right above you'd always smell that. you know plastic
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bird bird buildings or piece the wood you know mel's. formula. is 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 your hair your clothing with all the ashes that were falling on us. you knew and now we never complained. they say embrace the suck man. we cut to the work area we had initial briefing with are superior and we were told to keep an eye on our people then you're going to get what they call the iraqi crowd everybody. it sick for the first couple of weeks atrocious and not now
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without a doubt within a week people were falling out getting sick i really don't remember anybody questioning at that time. the health effects that it would have me actually when thinking about that and thinking they've got it all control we're 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 styrofoam metals chemicals from paints and solvents petroleum and lubricants jet fuel in an exploded ordinance medical and other dangerous waste. humans are supposed to breathe clean air air is twenty one percent oxygen and seventy nine percent nitrogen with no air pollution or particles in the air and in
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particle air can trigger asthma and when you particles in an open air setting at low temperature at 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 they get exposed to carcinogens which can cause cancer so burning with j.p. eight which is jet fuel low temperature will be 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
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samples after the burn pits were operational for many many years. after nine eleven i think he just wanted to keep on finding that he has they they had they won and been mad and i know. he wanted to fight the war even now and here we can burn stereophile 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. different medications. 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 plan 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
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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 constant 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. every day for the united states military it's open it's an iraq 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 torch everything from batteries to body
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parts experts say the pouring out of these pits are toxic and dangerous so while troops may survive the battle they may also be poison. 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. full 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
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in almost every case. it was subtle because these service members complained of shortness of breath with exertion but their x. rays and palmer 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 old man to have the long. long journeys are a respiratory condition 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. can cough would go forward and then when you start are bringing up different colors something trunk and general body weakness just trial bad bad and good no for their head to be some explanation that led
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about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry suddenly i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one difference has to be taken out because there are no other takers. chilian that
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mainstream media has met its maker. and. what he found was a series of veterans who had a q lung disease acute being area first of all. injury that he was able to find through long biopsies what he found with these tiny little holes these tears and their long tissue he saw nothing 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
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discover it. and the diagnosis was constrictor prophylactics in english it's a small area where his disease so the lining of your loans are destroyed if you have a perfectly healthy young soldier who's a nonsmoker goes over to iraq and afghanistan and congress back with construction broadway this that's really a big concern are were clearly implicated in. an increased incidence of lung disease associated with deployment. video deed decided they were going to send any more veterans his way anymore. i think dr miller's research and his study is a perfect example of. trying to avoid the issue and trying trying not to to pay the compensations to veterans. that they deserve he has the proof he has everything they are and they still will not
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even address his research. there were many people in that apartment or defense that couldn't accept these findings in you could speculate that they couldn't expect be that they couldn't accept these findings because of the potential broad employed. ation the idea that maybe there was a new agent orange think this deployment the government is looking down the road at billions of dollars in health care costs that they will be responsible for and i believe that they're doing everything they can to fav that off.
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the comments of the burn fats 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 hits of the lungs so it is aimed while the 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 range of symptoms that people are experience and if you really look into it and do the research you could make these symptoms directly to the burn pits my diagnosis is one that started out as you know i had sinus plasma sayto much if you
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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 site tomo it was biopsied and found to be that. will automatically flip down which for me tell you have a tumor in your head underneath your brain. 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 on got back i mean he was healthy the year that he came back they started on the tonsils got swollen and in the.
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end he would delete and he would believe from his mouth. i would have chunks of tissue come out of his mind and he was spit out and i believe it was two days a day after christmas when he was on told that he lists cancer. was really really ill. discussed leo. was vomiting feces and everything else and that when they took out the gallbladder just to be safe when they went in there to remove the gall bladder they took a biopsy of the tumor that was blocking my lower bowel and then to be a little mccants but as you know beau biden vice president biden's son served in the military and served in iraq and he was imperfect health shortly after the count home within nine months he started getting sick and he had
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a brain tumor. and he eventually died from the brain tumor the same type of brain tumor that many of the soldiers that are sick from the permits 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. good. but. it just didn't make sense it didn't make sense that my healthy husband had cancer and then it turned out there were two types of cancer how was it not the burn pits is not a type of cancer for a young twenty seven year old guy to have because first he didn't smoke he never
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smoked he's not a drinker 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 there coming back in there not a lot of more healthy anymore. it's a challenge but for other people it's it's been damn. 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 that it was completely buried its own calm
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no one and no one took it seriously deborah they never addressed his issues soldiers on the ground had no idea about colonel curtis has findings and his concern was never shared with anybody remembered from clearly. and six memo had basically said that the military was aware that the pollution levels around the pit were at an unsafe unhealthy level now they deal with the after that man 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 in-depth did not
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identify any 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. test for snow and albany new york and july. you may not find snow in albany new york. but that does not mean that it doesn't then it does not snow in albany new york and he was sent out monitors when wrong and you may not intact burning trash the monitors are too far away from them burning you may not attack
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a part of if you don't put in a monitor until after the burning stuff that you may not detect burning any common sense tells you there was a lot of bad there. is no. what can you say. there's a. big. all around the globe there's jobs. for nurturing. the world's finest people building. the world the company. the waste management responsibilities were part of a contract that was held by kellogg brown and root which was
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