1st Class Heath Robinson went on guard duty or worked alongside his fellow soldiers in Iraq, he could see and smell the smoke rising from the base's burn pits. "It was just an open pit the Army would use to get rid of anything-trash, feces, computers, rubber tires," he said in a...
Biden also said that "anybody who was anywhere near those burn pits, that's all they have to show and they get covered, they get all their health care covered." In August, the VA began processing claims for asthma, rhinitis and sinusitis. "Presumptive conditions" will also now include "...
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President Joe Biden on March 1 invoked his status as the father of a fallen soldier in aState of the Unionpromise to improve veterans health care and benefits, specifically focused on individuals suffering from theeffects of toxic burn pit smokefrom their time deployed overseas. “I’...