Burn Pits Saddled Him With 2 Double-Lung Transplants. Now He Wants To Ensure No One Suffers How He H

[douglas9]

“You smelled it every day, and then you’d get these dust storms that just pushed it all around,” former Army Staff Sgt. William Thompson said of the fumes and clouds of muck that came off the big burn pit at Camp Victory and other U.S. bases in Iraq.

Thompson has had two double-lung transplants since returning from two tours in Iraq. He attributes them to his exposure to the toxic brew of medical waste, human waste, plastics, tires, electronics, paint cans, routine garbage and the occasional entire Humvee that would be laced with jet fuel and set ablaze at hundreds of sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Thompson said he was having coughing fits before he left Camp Stryker for the last time. At Fort Stewart in Georgia, they said he had pneumonia, then it was pulmonary fibrosis. In June 2012, he had his first lung transplant, but there were signs of rejection.

“Had to do the whole thing all over again,” said Thompson, 47, of Princeton, West Virginia. In March 2016, he had his second double-lung transplant, but there are again signs of rejection.

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‘No evidence’ linking burn pits to illness, VA says

Sound familar?

https://taskandpurpose.com/burn-pits-double-lung-transplants/

[CanonRay]

1. Or Agent Orange. Or Depleted Uranium

VA will deny, deny, deny until half of them are dead, then say they were wrong 20 or 30 years down the road.