Burn Pits and a Giant F*** You!
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What does the Department of Veterans Affairs say about burn pits? It says that “research does not show evidence of long-term health problems from exposure.” I may not be a scientist but if I have to have my car smogged over here in the United States and meet certain EPA regulations because carbon monoxide is unhealthy as proven by decades of research …then I’m absolutely sure, that burning lithium-ion batteries…or any battery for that matter, or plastic, or diesel fuel…hey wait a minute…isn’t inhaling the fumes from fuel dangerous…(Deadpool style gasp)
Sign up to get shot at, cool! Sign up to get blown up, less cool, but we’ll still go! Sign up to have the VA blatantly lie about the hazards of the burn pits, apparently, they expect us to be cool with that too.
Part of the scientific method (which we should be using to figure out if there is a risk or not, right? Like No shit Sherlock!), requires that the testing be, reliable (meaning the test has predictable outcomes), repeatable (meaning you can do the same test the same way over and over again), and accurate (meaning that the test measures what you want it to measure). If these three parts are missing from the tests, then the test is invalid and violates the scientific method.
Now that we’ve said all of the scientific five-dollar words and shit…can the VA tell us that their tests were reliable, repeatable and accurate? Did we measure how much time each person actually spent near a burn pit, the parts per million of whatever it was they breathed in, what materials were in the burn pit…we’d sure like to know where the hard science came from…seeing as how it’d be almost impossible to gauge any variables post-hoc. Yet, somehow there is definitive proof that burn pits cause no health problems. At worst, it’s plausible that there may be some health concerns. There is no certain way to definitively say that there are no health risks involved with burn pits given the proclivity for throwing anything and everything in a burn pit.
We’ll believe that burn pits are totally safe when our shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert. What a giant f*** you from the VA.
I haven’t done any scientific research but didn’t the same thing happen with agent orange, in the ‘70s when the most Vietnam Vets we’re still alive.
What I’m curious about is all that time spent next to a warlock that would burn you if you touched it due to the radiation. Now what did that do to my brain since it was 3feet from my head for about a year straight? I know I’m not the only one thinking about this…?
My stepson died of leukemia after one year exposure to burn pit where he was stationed. He was only a Reservist. He was assigned to drive a fuel tanker somewhere north of Bagdad. He was a strong, healthy,
young man before his service. He left two
children under ten fatherless.
Try convincing me there was no unhealthy
exposure from Burn Pits. Everybody knows that’s a bold face lie.
And people wonder why so many vets choose to kill themselves AT the fucking VA. It is a big F.Y.!
I dont really mind the diesel or plastic but I didnt appreciate breathing in medical waste
What a grateful nation.
I’m a retired DOD civilian firefighter who retired from from the Ft. Riley Fire Department in 2007. When I began work there in 1979 I was stationed at the airfield where we had a “burn pit”. In essence what it truly was was a place for the units to bring any chemical that they didn’t know what it was or no longer needed, place it at our pit and then drive away. On Saturday or Sunday morning we would fill the pit with water, dump in anything that had showed up that week or two previously and set it on fire. If that weren’t bad enough then we would wade into it with no scba and put it out. We were young and had no idea for years what we had exposed ourselves to. The site was later deemed a superfund site and could not be cleaned up no what type of remediation was tried. Now for interesting part. Almost every firefighter that retired from FRFD has either died from cancer or with it upon death. One of my brother FFs has it and probably won’t make it until December. When I retired as an Asst. Chief I would have fired anyone for even entertaining the idea of doing what we did. Sorry anyone has to become sick or even die for stupidity.
From the same organization that categorized Agent Orange a harmless weed killer for 4 decades! I think it’s called the “Oh Shit we Fucked this one up” scientific method.