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VA launches revamped burn pit registry with automatic enrollment

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that it rolled out an updated registry of veterans’ exposure to burn pits and ...
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Burn Pit Victims with Rare Lung Disease Struggle to Get VA Care and Benefits

Iraq War veteran Cynthia Daniels was working as a police officer in Delaware after leaving the Army when she began experiencing shortness of breath. Once an avid runner, she could barely walk from her ...
Yahoo

I sounded the alarm on burn pits — now I see smoke at the VA

The impact of VA Secretary Collins' staffing cuts remains hazy, not unlike the downwind side of a burn pit, Dan Clare of DAV argues in this op-ed. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) In 2008, I left Balad Air ...
UPI

VA launches expanded burn pit registry with automatic inclusion for many vets

Aug. 1 (UPI) --The Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday launched an anxiously awaited redesign and expansion of its Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry, established 10 years ago to ...
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Lawmakers press VA to report on delays in burn pit registry revamp

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A bipartisan, bicameral legislative proposal would force the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide answers about a delayed redesign ...
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Burn pit fund for veterans on chopping block in GOP spending bill

(The Hill) – Democratic lawmakers and veterans’ groups are fuming over a provision in a stopgap federal spending bill passed ...
The Times Leader

Lawmakers require VA to track effects of burn pits

(AP) J.D. Williams didn’t think much about the smoke cloud that often shrouded his air base in Iraq. Not when it covered everything he owned with black soot or when his wheezing and coughing made it ...
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Surviving combat only to die at home: This soldier is picking out his coffin at 35

You can't tell by looking at him, but retired Staff Sgt. Wesley Black is about to die. He's just 35 years old. And today he's having what he calls a good day. "I could be dead tomorrow. I could live ...
WWNO

Veterans sick after toxic burn pit exposure are still struggling to get care covered

Hundreds of thousands of American veterans were exposed to toxic fumes from burn pits on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far, though, the Department of Veterans Affairs still denies the vast ...
Government Executive

VA launches revamped burn pit registry with automatic enrollment

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that it rolled out an updated registry of veterans’ exposure to burn pits and other toxic substances while on active service, a move that came ...
Government Executive

Lawmakers press VA to report on the delays in its burn pit registry revamp

A bipartisan, bicameral legislative proposal would force the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide answers about a delayed redesign of its database of veterans’ exposure to burn pits and other ...