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Old 12 August 2022, 04:18 AM   #1
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Burn Pit legislation a big win for Veterans
Great to see this put in place for Veterans that were affected by burn pits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/u...-veterans.html
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Old 12 August 2022, 04:32 AM   #2
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Great to see this put in place for Veterans that were affected by burn pits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/u...-veterans.html
Agreed, Jesse! Long overdue.
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Old 12 August 2022, 05:13 AM   #4
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Took too long... A damn shame!!
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Nice to see the refs letting the players play lately. Nice.
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I don’t know a lot about this. What was typically burned in these pits?


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Old 12 August 2022, 06:19 AM   #8
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I don’t know a lot about this. What was typically burned in these pits?


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Tires, battlefield debris and just about anything.
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Tires, battlefield debris and just about anything.

Wow. Terrible decision. How are they disposing of this waste now?


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Generally speaking this was in the past. Think of Desert Storm until the more recent Midlle East conflicts.
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Old 12 August 2022, 07:59 AM   #11
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I was in Iraq on a US base during the second war. All the trash went to burn pits. Food waste from the DFAC, barracks trash, plastic, human waste, motor pool oil, loose ammo, and anything that would normally be discarded in your home.

Proper garbage trucks full of trash would back up to large deep pits and empty their load. A few hundred gallons of JP8 would be splashed on it and set alight. The trash didn't burn so much as smolder. Normally the wind pushed the plume off base, but some days it would settle over the base and permeate through every crack and crevice. If cancer has a smell, it smells like a burn pit.
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Great to see this put in place for Veterans that were affected by burn pits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/u...-veterans.html
I agree. And the people who helped get it the attention it deserved to get over the line also deserve their kudos.
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If cancer has a smell, it smells like a burn pit.
I think you summed it up well in a nutshell.


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I agree. And the people who helped get it the attention it deserved to get over the line also deserve their kudos.
The first guy that comes to my mind is Jon Stewart.
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The first guy that comes to my mind is Jon Stewart.
Yes, he was a very big advocate of this.
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I was in Iraq on a US base during the second war. All the trash went to burn pits. Food waste from the DFAC, barracks trash, plastic, human waste, motor pool oil, loose ammo, and anything that would normally be discarded in your home.

Proper garbage trucks full of trash would back up to large deep pits and empty their load. A few hundred gallons of JP8 would be splashed on it and set alight. The trash didn't burn so much as smolder. Normally the wind pushed the plume off base, but some days it would settle over the base and permeate through every crack and crevice. If cancer has a smell, it smells like a burn pit.
Yeah, I can imagine.

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The burn pits were terrible. For the remote locations in Afghanistan I don’t know what a better solution would be.
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