VA Offers Burn Pit Registry

Last year, Congress ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to set up the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry. So far, almost 50,000 veterans have signed up. If you feel like you are sick as a result of deployment, you can sign on to the registry. The burn pit registry helps researchers to study the health effects of burn pits and other airborne hazards and is one of several research projects currently underway at VA. For more information and to sign up, visit the VA Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry webpage and the VA Burn Pits webpage. For more on this issue, see this Military.com news article.