Burn pits, battlefield toxins, disabled troops and the fight for data

[Roland99]

http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/401539-burn-pits-battlefield-toxins-disabled-troops-and-the-fight-for-data

“I will advocate until they drape the flag over my coffin.”

That’s what Rosie Lopez-Torres told the Reserve Officers Association her husband, Army Reserve Capt. Leroy Torres, would say about his struggle for fair treatment after being disabled by toxic fumes spewing from burn pits in Iraq in 2007.

“You pretty much have to be a full-time advocate, just to ensure that the system doesn’t lose you in the process … if you come back from fighting a war and have to fight to keep your job. It’s been a huge sacrifice; it’s had a huge impact on our lives,” she said. “How do you endure being stripped of your dignity and the one thing that was your life’s dream?”

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“VA is doing what it normally does: stall for time under the guise of scientific uncertainty,” said Dr. Remington Nevin in an August 2018 article in The American Legion magazine. Nevin served in Afghanistan with the Army as a preventative medicine officer. “The time to act is when you have plausible evidence that veterans are ill and dying because of their exposure to burn-pit smoke — not certainty

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. where's the GOP?

Oh, right. Repukes are only gung-ho for the military when USING them for votes or war. No need to take care of vets unless it's helpful for a campaign. More replacements will be born.

Get out the vote to get the GOP out of power.

[Roland99]

2. Enlist them. Engage them. Exhaust them. Excrete then.

[KT2000]

3. unless you have a burn on your skin

or you are dead, toxic chemicals cannot cause any other health conditions. This is supported by our federal government, state governments, all agencies, and the timid medical profession.
These entities have made it nearly impossible to use what scientific evidence there is in court proceedings.

This is the world of workers who have been poisoned on the job - and there are many, military, regular citizens.
It was the Department of Defense that made sure poisoned workers manufacturing military hardware were not given workers comp. They also call in the various lobbying groups to make sure there is no recognition. They write editorials, lobby governments, give presentations telling the business community that these people are malingerers, scam artists, and mentally ill.

This scenario has been played out over and over for decades.

[Roland99]

4. :(