The article on the sick government-generated pollution at Balad AB brought in some interesting email. Here is the intensely personal story from a young man who was assigned there. He writes, “I was stationed in Balad for just over 6 months. I was downwind from the burn pit.But I wasn’t really downwind as much as I was directly in the plume for a majority of my time spent there. The pit was about half a mile away and daily the black smoke would blow across our cargo grid yard. I spent all day working in the smoke. Some days, the … Continue reading Follow up on the Balad Burn Pit