“I knew that deploying could cost me my life...I didn't think it would be like this.”
Courtesy Kate Hendricks Thomas
The military used burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan as a way to get rid of trash. Regular household waste items were burned, such as food and clothing. But so were more toxic substances -- paint, metals, plastics, styrofoam, rubber and human waste. She said these burn pits smelled like exhaust and asphalt on a hot summer day. She said they smoldered, with billowing black smoke.
"They said it looked like I had been dipped in something," Thomas remembered."I had metastases throughout my skeletal system from my skull to my toes.","there is a notably high incidence of breast cancer among younger military women . The incident rate of breast cancer for active duty women is seven times higher than the average incident rate of fifteen other cancer types across all service members.
Since then, Thomas and her family have paid thousands of dollars every year for private health insurance to pay for her medical treatments not covered by veterans' benefits.Smoke billows in from all sides as a member of the U.S. military pushes a bulldozer deep into the flames of a burn pit to keep burnable items constantly ablaze, at Balad Air Base in Iraq, Sept. 24, 2004.There are multiple ways to expand veterans’ benefits.
There are two bills being considered to expand benefits for veterans, one in the House and one in the Senate.The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., told ABC News that he believes"2021 will be the year that we get a comprehensive toxic exposure bill done."Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a co-sponsor of the House bill and a veteran herself, believes that if passed, the measure could be expansive enough to give affected veterans what they need.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., says he has been working with the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee to make sure a full list of ailments is included in the bill.
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