NPR: Veterans dealing with health problems caused by huge burning piles of trash and waste.
NPR: Veterans dealing with health problems caused by huge burning piles of trash and waste.
“What people don’t understand is just how large some of these bases really are, I mean they’re small cities,” Patricia Kime tells NPR’s David Greene. She’s a health care and medicine reporter for Military Times. She says soldiers reported seeing dark plumes of smoke hanging heavy in the air.
“So these are open-air pits where they would light it on fire and quite often they ran 24-hours a day,” she says.
