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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read More: Care Packages Are Not Kindling for Burn Pits The season also meant an ... Infamously, a base in Kandahar province had a TGI Fridays restaurant, until it was shut down in mid-2013 ...

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.

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 ...

Donohue, who was an Army specialist, supervised operations at a 130-foot-wide burn pit outside Kandahar ... with whatever particles were in the air.” Other Marines spent much more time next ...

near large installations such as Bagram Air Base and Kandahar Airfield, where burn pits were established to dispose of trash. Within a week of being in theatre, members of Tomaska and Muller's ...