CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar February 17, 2022 12:42:00
If you deployed to afghanistan or iraq, you were probably exposed to a burn pit. it's almost up avoidable. multiple acre size burning trash heaps. this is illegal here in the u.s. and has been for decades. you just can't do this here. but in these overseas locations, this was standard process. not only would you dump everything in there, but service members themselves were off responsible for doing the dumping and keeping them alight and keeping them going. if you were one of 3.5 million who deployed to afghanistan and iraq in the global war on terror, you were probably exposed a burn pit. >> ...