Open-Air Burn Pit Smoke Causes Cancer 6 November 2009 Pentagon physicians see no connection between the Open-Air Burn Pits and more serious illnesses such as leukemia. Veterans Affairs officials do not recognize Open-Air Burn Pit exposure as a presumed combat-connected illness. But in August 2009, President Barack Obama promised the issue would not become another “Agent Orange,” the name for herbicides used heavily during the Vietnam War and that were later linked to serious health problems in civilians and U.S. troops. Veterans groups have fought with military agencies for years over health benefits related to that chemical exposure. “I don’t want us hiding the ball if there’s a real problem there,” the president said. Yet on Oct. 21, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in response to a town hall question about Open-Air Burn Pits, said he had first heard of the issue “just a couple of weeks ago” and “I have just started to get educated myself on it.” stripes/news/families-dod-spar-over-dangers-of-burn-pit-smoke-1.96179
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