EP-194 | GWOT Deployment. Toxic Exposure. What You Need to Know

A must listen for anyone who deployed or knows someone who deployed in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT).

In 2006, an official risk assessment conducted by Air Force Personnel titled “Burn Pit Hazards” at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, was “the worst environmental site I have personally visited” and continued to list items witnessed being burned in high quantities including plastics, Styrofoam and both medical and non-medical wastes while using jet-propellant-8 (JP-8) fuel as an accelerant (Curtis, 2006).
This is one case of many.

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Robert is a retired US Army Armor and Recruiter/Retention MSG turned Fortune 50 executive; Mike Pritts is a retired US Army CSM of 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and Pat Tillman Scholar; Nikki Selby is a retired US Navy Flight Nurse.

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