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 ...

"Rather, we observed several truckloads of solid waste being delivered to open-air burn pits." The base generates about 54 tons of waste a day, the report said. The military experienced a similar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...