The military has acknowledged the concerns but said its own test of the most notorious case, the Balad Air Force Base burn ... close to a burn pit while deployed by the Army to Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The pit at Kandahar was located southwest of the base ... with a 2012 Central Command regulation requiring base commanders to phase out open-air burn pits as the base grew in population. A spokesman ...

During most of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military and its contractors disposed of garbage and everything else it did not want to ship back to the U.S. in open-air burn pits. There were ...

By John Ismay On bases established for America’s post-9/11 wars, the U.S. military’s trash was often burned in huge, open-air lots on ... time guarding a burn pit in Kandahar, but later ...

101st Airborne Division recently deployed to the Pashmul area in the Zhari District of Kandahar... Two interpreters for Bravo troop dump their trash in the base's "burn pit." Bravo "Bonecrusher ...

Thousands of soldiers have fallen gravely ill or even died from exposure to burn ... pit combined with the base’s sewage pit, created a noxious environment to work in. “There were times when ...

a 28-year-old Air Force veteran who lived adjacent to the burn pit at Afghanistan’s Kandahar Air Base. Meyer is now confined to a wheelchair because of inoperable tumors in his knees ...

Two interpreters for Bravo troop dump their trash in the base's "burn pit" in the Zhari District of Kandahar Province which ... Hensley served in the Air Force from 1995 to 2015, during which ...

one of a squadron that arrived at the Kandahar air base, Afghanistan January 23, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani Trump administration plans new travel ban. Here's who could be affected.

They've been referred to as the Agent Orange of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Burn pits were used by the United States military to dispose of rubbish including chemicals, plastics, rubber ...