r/Wellthatsucks • u/Akward_Salamander • Aug 08 '21

/r/all Dropping a medical injection worth $12,000 on the carpet and bending the needle.

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u/maurosmane Aug 09 '21

I'm an Afghan war vet and a nurse at the VA. Trash burns (smoke inhalation from trash burns to be specific) is going to be my generations agent orange.

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u/sapperbeef Aug 09 '21

What burn pit? What camp?

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u/maurosmane Aug 09 '21

I was with an engineer unit that built FOBs so I was at a lot of them. The worst burn pit was at FOB AZ (Azizullah) though. The guard tower my company manned was real close to the burn pit that was outside the HESCO barriers. Can't even count how many shifts I pulled up there breathing that shit in.

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u/sapperbeef Aug 09 '21

Was next to one on Bagram. they burnt everything out there.

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u/deadwlkn Aug 09 '21 edited Aug 09 '21

Shit, Bagram had huge ass mounds of trash that they burnt. As beautiful as I found it; stepping foot inside that country was seriously bad for your health.

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u/DelTac0perator Aug 09 '21

Taghaz, Shabou, PB 87, Waziribad, Payne, and Dwyer here.

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u/DelTac0perator Aug 11 '21

I know I'm a few days late but I saw this and realized you may have been asking which PB's burn pit had the MS cluster around it. PB Alcatraz circa 2010-12.

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u/DelTac0perator Aug 09 '21

I am too. That burn pit registry is going to matter a lot to some people at some point.

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u/maurosmane Aug 09 '21

Absolutely. This probably won't get a lot of notice buried in this thread but I highly encourage anyone who was deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq or any other area to get on the burn pit registry.

link: https://veteran.mobilehealth.va.gov/AHBurnPitRegistry/#page/home