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For our FOB, there was no "KBR"... I wouldn't know who to sue. There was no PX or movie theaters or chow halls... I take that back, there was a Guard unit who ran a place to pick up pre-packaged foods that were not MRE's and had "hot meals" most of the time. Not cooking but rather the large field rations cooked in a field kitchen. But that is off topic.
This was 100% U.S. Military/Government. Our Chain of Command told us to "Shut the f*ck up and get the f*ck back on patrol, a little smoke is the least of your worries". But no KBR or civilians on our FOB to blame. The only civilians on our FOB were the Iraqis who worked at the power plant. Can't let the insurgents gain control of the power plant... But I am of the opinion were f*cked. Our government shit all over us and knew they were doing it.
I have other issues flaring up right now and its spilling over into this post... God damned VA is a bunch of worthless f*ckS!
This was 100% U.S. Military/Government. Our Chain of Command told us to "Shut the f*ck up and get the f*ck back on patrol, a little smoke is the least of your worries". But no KBR or civilians on our FOB to blame. The only civilians on our FOB were the Iraqis who worked at the power plant. Can't let the insurgents gain control of the power plant... But I am of the opinion were f*cked. Our government shit all over us and knew they were doing it.
I have other issues flaring up right now and its spilling over into this post... God damned VA is a bunch of worthless f*ckS!
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That was for sure our COC's view. In fact, they didn't care if it was harmful and any idiot knew it was. You know how it is. When something shitty is beyond your control, you suck it up and "Charlie-Mike"... But we were there to either kill insurgents or win hearts and minds. The smoke was so low down on their list of concerns. I'm sure everybody who has been somewhere where death is around you constantly that things like "pollutants" are not a big deal at the time. You have to pick and choose your battles.
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Trying to find pictures of the one huge Iraqi burning landfill and two smaller ones. I was over there in 2005 and I have lost quite a few pictures between the divorce and computer being stolen. I'm lucky to have what I do have. When I was married, my ex deleted the Iraq photos she deemed "not appropriate" for... I guess civilians, her, other who may use our computer, etc, etc. Its not like I flaunted them. She did it to be a hurtful person. But I'll keep looking. I think if I search some flash drives, I might find some.
These environmental exposures are things that are eventually going to catch up to the DOD and VA. At least in the form of compensation. It took the Nam vets 30 years, GW vets 20 and likely another 10 for the OEF / OIF vets to bring forth exposure info.
There is much more dissemination, processing and sharing of information in various forms of media. The DOD will have a harder and harder time hiding and covering up this stuff.
I had a lot of images. Not digital of the oil well fires. Trying to read maps in the daytime with a flash light. Pictures of us burning out chemically contaminated TA-50 but they were lost to a fire. However the DOD and VA still state that there isn't any known health hazards.
Whatever.
There is much more dissemination, processing and sharing of information in various forms of media. The DOD will have a harder and harder time hiding and covering up this stuff.
I had a lot of images. Not digital of the oil well fires. Trying to read maps in the daytime with a flash light. Pictures of us burning out chemically contaminated TA-50 but they were lost to a fire. However the DOD and VA still state that there isn't any known health hazards.
Whatever.
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And don't forget the "harmless" dust in Iraq....
"Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have coined the term “Iraq-Afghanistan war lung injury” to describe respiratory symptoms developed by some veterans — and they have duplicated the problem in mice, using dust from Camp Victory in Baghdad.
In an article published Friday in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, researchers including Dr. Anthony Szema, an allergist and assistant professor of medicine at Stony Brook, found that exposing mice to dust collected from Camp Victory in 2007 produced inflammation and changes to respiratory airways similar to those found in Iraq veterans diagnosed with constrictive bronchiolitis.
The mice lungs contained “angular, sharp and solid” particles with traces of titanium and iron, according to the study.
Replicating the experiment with dust from other locations, including the San Joaquin Valley in California; Kandahar, Afghanistan; and a titanium mine in Montana, the researchers could not produce the same inflammatory response.
“Respirable Iraq dust leads to lung inflammation in mice similar to that seen in patients, with polarizable crystals, which seem to be titanium,” the study concludes, referring to several of Szema’s patients — veterans found to have titanium and iron in their lungs following tissue analysis.
A massive, Pentagon-funded population study called the Millennium Cohort Study found that 14 percent of troops who deployed to Iraq report experiencing chronic respiratory symptoms such as cough, bronchitis, shortness of breath and asthma starting during deployment or afterward, compared with 10 percent who did not deploy."
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"Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have coined the term “Iraq-Afghanistan war lung injury” to describe respiratory symptoms developed by some veterans — and they have duplicated the problem in mice, using dust from Camp Victory in Baghdad.
In an article published Friday in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, researchers including Dr. Anthony Szema, an allergist and assistant professor of medicine at Stony Brook, found that exposing mice to dust collected from Camp Victory in 2007 produced inflammation and changes to respiratory airways similar to those found in Iraq veterans diagnosed with constrictive bronchiolitis.
The mice lungs contained “angular, sharp and solid” particles with traces of titanium and iron, according to the study.
Replicating the experiment with dust from other locations, including the San Joaquin Valley in California; Kandahar, Afghanistan; and a titanium mine in Montana, the researchers could not produce the same inflammatory response.
“Respirable Iraq dust leads to lung inflammation in mice similar to that seen in patients, with polarizable crystals, which seem to be titanium,” the study concludes, referring to several of Szema’s patients — veterans found to have titanium and iron in their lungs following tissue analysis.
A massive, Pentagon-funded population study called the Millennium Cohort Study found that 14 percent of troops who deployed to Iraq report experiencing chronic respiratory symptoms such as cough, bronchitis, shortness of breath and asthma starting during deployment or afterward, compared with 10 percent who did not deploy."
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combatgoldfish
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FieldArtilleryGuy
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What fob is that CGF? It looks familiar especially with the M777 in the back. I love the old school green not up armored vehicle with the new (08ish) howitzer. (I did the field testing for that howitzer)
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