Biden administration to increase support for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while serving overseas

Photo: U.S. service members dump their trash in their base’s “burn pit” in the Zhari District of Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2012. Photo credit: Sebastian Meyer / Corbis via Getty Images. Article by Courtney Kube. NBC News – November 11, 2021.

The pits were common at U.S. bases during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Dangerous materials from electronics to human waste were doused in fuel and set ablaze.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will announce a series of actions Thursday to help veterans who were exposed to burn pits and other contaminants while serving overseas, including making it easier for vets to prove that they were exposed and pushing to find links between exposure and potentially deadly diseases, administration officials said. […]

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