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Bullet Points

Petraeus To Congress: It’s Time To Get Serious About Burn Pits

Jared Keller and Jeff Schogol
Opinion

Veterans Deserve Answers On Their Exposure To Burn Pits
Health & Fitness

Burn Pits Saddled Him With 2 Double-Lung Transplants. Now He Wants To Ensure No One Suffers How He Has

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Veterans Benefits

Here’s What You Need To Know About A New Ruling Linking Burn Pits And Lung Disease

James Clark

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nathanial Fink (left), a light-armored vehicle driver with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and 19-year-old native of Neenah, Wis., and Lance Cpl. Garrett Camacho, a food service specialist with Headquarter and Service Company, and 19-year-old native of Fredericksburg, Va., dispose of trash in a burn pit.

Veterans Who Say Burn Pit Exposure Made Them Sick Wait For Judge’s Decision On Lawsuit

Patricia Kime, McClatchy Washington Bureau

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - Sgt. Robert B. Brown from Fayetteville, N.C. with Regimental Combat Team 6, Combat Camera Unit watches over the civilian Fire Fighters at the burn pit as smoke and flames rise into the night sky behind him on May 25th, 2007. Camp Fallujah has its own civilian run Fire Department to assist the Marines and Soldiers during a fire or emergency. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq to develop Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (Official USMC photograph by Cpl. Samuel D. Corum)(RELEASED)(RELEASED)

Health & Fitness

‘There Was No Escaping It’: Iraq Vets Are Becoming Terminally Ill And Burn Pits May Be To Blame

Patricia Kime

Senior Airman Frances Gavalis, 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron equipment manager, tosses unserviceable uniform items into a burn pit.

Mourners Say Goodbye To Veteran Who Sounded Alarm Over Burn Pits

Mark Brunswick, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nathanial Fink (left), a light-armored vehicle driver with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and 19-year-old native of Neenah, Wis., and Lance Cpl. Garrett Camacho, a food service specialist with Headquarter and Service Company, and 19-year-old native of Fredericksburg, Va., dispose of trash in a burn pit.

DoD Isn’t Doing Enough To Understand Burn Pit Exposure Effects, Report Says

The Government Accountability Office says the Pentagon hasn’t made enough progress in the last five years.

Mark Brunswick, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Senior Airman Frances Gavalis, 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron equipment manager, tosses unserviceable uniform items into a burn pit.

When It Comes to Burn Pits, Veterans Might Be On Their Own

As Congress defunds research into the health effects of burn pits, veterans are forced to be their own advocates.

Scott Beauchamp