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 "...
“We don’t know for sure if a burn pit was the cause of his brain cancer, or the diseases of so many of our troops,” Biden said. “But I’m committed to finding out everything we can.” The inclusion of burn pits issues and other veterans policy in the State of the...