The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers by Joseph Hickman

Author:Joseph Hickman [Hickman, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510705739
Amazon: 1510705732
Publisher: Hot Books
Published: 2016-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

I felt like my hands were tied when trying to deal with the constant complaints from service members exposed to the smoke. Most of these complaints, which included headaches, nausea, irritation of the eyes and upper respiratory complaints, were probably associated with particulate matter [from the burn pits]. Air Force commanders also called and asked what I was doing about the burn pits. A commander contacted me to let me know he had airmen who had vomited the night before because of the thick smoke. In addition to the possible long-term health problems from potential carcinogens and other toxins, the quality of life for those thousands and thousands of service members who had to breathe the thick smoke for months on end was poor. Given the lack of action in ending the use of the burn pits at Balad, the most I could do was to let the airmen know the exposure would be included in their medical records upon redeployment … During medical redeployment briefings with each Air Force service member, the smoke from the burn pits was the issue of most concern for our airmen. These service members would request that the burn pit exposure be placed in their medical records because they were concerned about the long-term impact to their health associated with their exposures. After my return, the one common experience I have noticed when talking to my fellow veterans who served in Iraq is the burn pits. Everyone who served seems to have been near a burn pit.

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