A Message From the DAV and DAV Auxiliary
The DAV and the DAV Auxiliary have sent this notice around regarding H.R. 6959 The Burn Pit Registry Enhance Act. I’m posting their message here, for your information.
On September 27, 2018, Representative Raul Ruiz (CA) introduced H.R. 6959, the Burn Pit Registry Enhancement Act. This bill would direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that the burn pit registry may be updated with the cause of death of a deceased registrant.
In June 2014, the VA launched the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry to allow eligible veterans and service members to document their exposures and report health concerns. As of September 26, 2018, more than 157,000 veterans and service members have completed and submitted the registry questionnaire.
DAV strongly supports H.R. 6959 as it will enhance the burn pit registry by including diseases related to a veteran’s cause of death. This legislation is in accord with DAV Resolution No. 090.
Please use the prepared electronic letter or draft your own to urge your Representative to support and cosponsor H.R. 6959. As always, we appreciate your support for DAV and your grassroots activism in participating in DAV CAN. Thank you for all you do for America’s ill and injured veterans and their families.
At the link below, the electronic letter is available. You can also go online at the DAV’s website and access it there. Just do it, or those two Marines up top will find you and take you to task over it.
Category: Veteran Health Care
Thanks Ex, a good program and I hope it helps fellow TAH’ers who qualify.
I’m one of those registered with the Burn Pit Registry.
I registered a year ago – couldn’t help but notice that the overall slant of the questions seemed geared to give Uncle Sam some wiggle room.
Very timely topic, Ex-Ph2.
I just read this article on Fox News earlier this morning.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/burn-pit-vets-widower-believes-memos-show-that-grave-illness-didnt-need-to-happen
Yes good post, timely indeed and thanks for the quick Fox link Sky. Seems like, again, the more things change, the more things seem the same. Guess the burn pits issue will be the Agent Orange of the Gulf Wars. That and the depleted uranium shells. Let’s hope the Vets trying to get help for smoke exposure don’t have to have weather pattern reports for their time in country proving they were down wind from pits with GPS Google Maps location shown.
I’ve talked to a lot of Veterans that have spoken about that.
It’s too bad that people have to die before they are taken seriously…
Thankfully, I only had to deal with random incoming every so often at Bagdad. The worst part was the sandstorms and the heat. I later read on the VA site, that we should sign up under the Burn Pit registry because of the funky stuff being blown around in the storms. Not too sure about that.
Never been sick in my life and came back from my last tour with asthma so bad I have to carry a rescue inhaler all the time. Registered on the Burn pit registry by it was very hard to log on the system, it kept freezing up and the VA rep was no help. Needs to be user friendly.
Took me an hour to sort out the mess they had record-wise from 3 deployments.