@@k333rl , Was that necessary? The Trans issues are complicated. Dealing with soldiers with disabilities caused by what they did on duty should not be.
@Dearly Diane yeah....my schooling and upbringing didnt fuck up my mind...unlike every other adult..I got over my childhood trauma. But seeing someone disintegrate from a landmine IED and getting painted in their blood does fuck with you a bit.
No these people should have had help with this problem when it was known that it was a problem. I'm enraged about that these people who are trying to get help and the people at the Pentagon apparently have known about this particular problem and should have done something/ ANYTHING EXCEPT PUTTING THE PEOPLE'S LIVES IN MORE DANGER THAN THEY SHOULD HAVE FOR BURNING TRASH!!!
This brought tears to my eyes listening to Sgt. Black. Our brother's in arms need better medical attention by the VA. Keep fighting the fight, sir! 🇺🇸🙏❤️
@@trantorthetroll8768 don’t let these type get under skin. It’s hard not to eradicate them because well, it’s illegal and murder is frowned upon. You just have to bite your tongue while the entitled ignorant and ungrateful reap the benefits. Democrats are ruining the country. Starting with the schools indoctrination of children and people having kids that don’t raise them. It’s a sad sad world
This is terrifying. I feel with this soldier who put their lives into danger serving the his country. RESPECT and PRAYERS FOR HIM, HE NEEDS MIRACLE FROM HEAVE. GOD BLESS YOU MAN🙏🙏🙏
I wish there was something we could do. If not for him, for his family. I know they'll be taken care of, somewhat, but losing a Dad and a Husband is so hard and not ok.
@@jonathanmol4489 Don't dangle a carrot promising the cure for cancer. Wow you are a terrible person. If you are gonna keep your opinions to yourself, please keep them all to yourself so no one has to read your jerky responses. This is about our vets dying after they get back from war. Insensitive is the bare minimum descriptor for you. Just insulting people for fun while they are offering sympathies for dying vets? That computer screen you have there is a helluva confidence booster.
@@michellegaza7740 Yes, I am a horrible person with a disability. I try to spread joy and love to people I have never met on Sweetest day. Since 2005 I have sent out a handwritten poem to 36 people as an expression of goodwill. The $56 a pair means little to me. I make minimum wage. Hey, thanks for your support, you are the greatest patriot!
This is absolutely horrific and many blessings to him and his family this is unacceptable and this is what angers Me as a progressive why is it that the men and women who serve our country have to " Wait" when the establishment dems and Republicans get whatever they want when THEY want it but our troops have to beg for this country to care for them and about them . I sware if we all unified and just don't show up to work , & refuse to pay our taxes and refuse give in to our politicians watch how quick things would get done i swear sometimes I'm so done with this country
I know I’m a grammar Nazi, and I apologize, but it’s “swear.” I just want people to take your message seriously. I have a husband and three children serving active duty military. I can assure you, starting with the unnecessary Iraq war, republicans (Halliburton) have profited obscenely off defense contracts. It’s worse than you can imagine. And democrats don’t get tough with them.
@F RUclips actually it was Dr. Seuss publishers who cancelled certain editions of their own books. It was the repubes that cried about it while at the same time cancelling Liz Cheney 'cause she had the guts to do what Kevin McC***sucka and Wretch McConnell couldn't do, tell the truth.
This is infuriating and heartbreaking. SOMETHING has to be done our military men and women should not be used fking lab rats! They should have been protected. Absolutely heartbreaking
My heart goes out to this veteran. My father, a lifer with the USNAVY, exposed to asbestos, wasn’t given 100% for his interstitial lung disease that killed him 5 years ago. We watched him struggle to breathe until the end.
@Xhade Brinsbane It would be justice if the people who sent him overseas to police "their assets" would be forced to breath toxic smoke and get cancer. Now that's justice!
Because the issued gas masks are for actual chemical warfare agents and not for toxic industrial chemicals or materials (TICs/TIMs). Wearing them might signal to the rest that an actual chemical attack is underway. What they need are full-face respirators with HEPA pre-filters and toxic chemical cartridges. They would need to be trained in respirator usage and fit-tested for them according to worker safety laws. That is a huge undertaking and federal safety laws do not necessarily apply in a combat zone. The military may opt to follow civilian safety laws when it suits them, but in this case they choose the exemption to the law.
@hopeless Do you just like fighting? I meant innocous in the sense that the thing you ignore as "not that serious" could kill. I worked in a factory breathing in all sorts of chemicals without thinking about the damage it could be doing to me. It is clear that these soldiers are breathing in toxic fumes but did you see a gas mask anywhere? Stop with your baseless attack.
@@detrelllevert2457 Innocous means not harmful, can be ignored. By adding seemingly, it means if you take it lightly, it could harm you. A gas filtering mask isn't 100% protection but it gives you a chance. Limited exposure with protection is how we move in dangerous environments.
@@truthoverfacts9254 I can't post links but look it up. Since the 1980's there have been several D- attempts to end military burn pits. ALWAYS oppossed by the GOP.
@@truthoverfacts9254 Actually started with the "non-existant" Roswell Air Base. This is when these burn pits and horrendous after effects came into public knowledge.
@@freepatriot9070 I'm uplifting myself, I'm just saying what I wanted to complain about is not even worth discussing in comparison to what some people have to deal with. Therefore, I rather them to be heard before I want someone to hear me. Out of respect,, I place my own "complaints" on the back-burner.
@@JoseyWales1865 if you truly want to read more about it, you need only search for "effects of using depleted uranium ammunition" as, that's what causes the mysterious syndrome. As a matter of fact, the Phd who engineered it, started warning people about how dangerous it is. Those talks are here on RUclips. Put some leg work into it, and stop expecting everyone else to do your research for you, please. Have a nice f'n day! 😎🇺🇸
The difference between this and agent orange, he knew the govt did agent orange when he signed up, still thought it was ok to join, so long as it was done to other people. Agent orange demonstrated the inhumanity and lack of transparency that existed in the command, yet he still joined . He’s ok with killing other people to keep gas cheap and profitable, but when the sacrifice is on him, wants compensation. Ahh, too bad.
it is beyond disgusting, this country's b.s. wars all over the planet. all the fake rhetoric boils down to $ for the wrong people every time. Christians & Republicans have no solution bc they enjoy this stupid, vacant mock- patriotism. i am too angry to write any further. Christians think they care but do not follow the actual teachings of their Christ, no way. the Republican positions are against America's principles but jabber on like they've got the real answers - all the above = $ lust & lies. i wish they'd take their lemming ways right off the nearest, steepest cliff & stay gone. it will be a better America without such trash blowing through our private/public live. GTH.
Not great leadership to put their soldiers into harm's way of obviously toxic smoke/fumes. This gentleman is absolutely doing the right thing to tell them what they SHOULD already KNOW. Senseless and completely disrespectful of human life.
@@josephsouth4795 Every generation in my family has served since WW1. I do hope that this kind of awareness forces change. But yeah, I can't even begin to imagine how much trash and expendable materials is thrown away. I had not thought of that intensity of the logistics before.
Every man and woman that had to put up w the pits deserve there respect and life. I was in Balad, side by side with my veteran brother and sisters in this. Brain tumors stomach tumors lung illnesses blindness tinitus and I never fired a shot. I was a heavy equipment op in 04-06 and it's horrible to fight terrorism and die from trash fires
I really feel for these soldiers who have had this exposure. And I have to ask who thought that burn pits fueled with Diesel Fuel were a good idea to begin with? Fuel needs to be handled with care at all times and it is total negligence, arrogance, thoughtlessness, and disregard for basic safety for this to have happened. Plus honestly a dash of macho mentality. We need to take care of these soldiers AND we need to talk about this attitude of disregard that created this problem to begin with.
This has been going on way to long. Gunny Bill Chick, retired Marine, died the same way from Desert Storm burn pits. We called it Desert Storm Syndrome.
Seems to me like there is another way of observing the burn pits or guarding them than to have a soldier standing at a post while guarding garbage. There should be a perimeter or something established and cameras or low flying heat resistant drones flying over to monitor safe burning conditions. Why is there someone not thinking of these kinds of things? God bless this man and his family. He gave his youth serving this country and this is what he gets in return. How awful. This is outrageous! What a sad life when you get a death sentence before you’ve had a fair chance to live.
He wasn’t guarding it or watching the burn pit. ECP stands for entry control point, it’s where people and vehicles can move in and out of the base. Burn pits are usually close by for ease of use so we don’t have to go far out of the base.
We can't avoid it. Also it's not just our burn pits, the locals pretty much burn everything. So going out on patrols during the early mornings or at night is pretty much like going through a giant dump on fire. There are fire pits scattered all along the highways and roads, then we have to stand above a barrel with a gas mask and pour diesel over literal shit and burn that while we stir it...
The solution is to legalize marijuana like we did during World War II. Cannabis Sativa is hemp. Cannabis Sativa is also "Marijuana." Cannabis Sativa was outlawed in 1937 as the world's most dangerous drug, "Marihuana." But after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the US Department of Agriculture made a 14-minute instructional film for American farmers titled *Hemp For Victory* on how to cultivate and harvest Cannabis Sativa to make equipment for the military during World War II. The Federal license to grow hemp that is shown three minutes into the video reads, "Producer of Marihuana." Industrial hemp can be made into virtually anything that is not glass or metal. Ford Motor Company made a plastic car body using hemp in 1941, and the 2008 Lotus Eco Elise sportscar was made nearly entirely from hemp. There are videos of both vehicles on RUclips. This means that any plastic products ranging from cellophane to water bottles to laptop computers could have been made non-toxic from the stalks of "Marihuana" plants since our grandparents were young. Additionally, the US Department of Agriculture reported in Bulletin 404 written in 1916 that one acre of Cannabis hemp can make as much paper as four acres of trees, which means that global deforestation could have ended over 100 years ago. The 1942 USDA film, Hemp For Victory, was kept out of history books and public debates from 1945 until 1989, and has been ignored by everyone for the 30 years that it's been public. There is an official US National Archives link to the video available through any search engine. It is also available on several RUclips channels. It's been on everyone's cellphones for years and no one notices. The film is only 14-minutes long and changes the last 75 years of human history, US domestic and foreign policy, and global industry.
Garbage isn't necessarily garbage. I'll agree we can do better, but imagining it's all useless garbage is not the right starting point. In a combat zone, anything can be weaponized. For what it's worth, I've seen 2 such pits personally. I thought at the time how horrible it was, but it does serve a purpose.
This is terrible. I'm so sorry this happened to you Sgt Black. You and all of our veterans and active military deserve so much better. Thank you for your service sounds trite since you have given so much, but from my heart, thank you and God be with you and your family. I'll keep you in my prayers, for real, not just saying that. This should never have happened to you.
My generation had to fight for health care and disability rights for Agent Orange. Hope this Gulf War generation doesn't have to wait 30 years and fight the battle of attrition to get what they deserve. These folks have given all. It is up to us to give them care and treatment and RESPECT.
@Fred Hope That was in Bhopal wasn't it ? Monsanto is a horrible corporation. They know the damage they create, with their poisons and toxic waste, yet if the stockholders are happy with the bottom line . . . . they don't care as lit as it doesn't happen in their back yard.
@Fred Hope You know that they KNEW how lethal this stuff was. The least they could have done was issue precautions about protective clothing or filtration masks. Bastards.
Oh dude, my heart breaks for everyone in the fight against cancer. I just want to hug you and your family. Stay focused and Godspeed. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself.
I am Awesome !! . I know what is done is done pertaining to this young man . But never give up !! . I am not a vet but I have Stage 4 cancer as well . Fight the good fight , Hold on ..Glory to God . Make everyday count .. Expect a Miracle
This is so heartbreaking to hear. This country should do much better by our Veterans. My Father died much too early because of his service to this country. Only one of his brothers who served lived past 70 yrs old.
Because there are no municipal waste management services and facilities in a COMBAT zone. Imagine otherwise the enemy setting off IEDs along that convoy of trash compactor trucks serving the base on their way to the landfill. That trash contractor would not last a week.
Diesel fuel itself is known to be carcinogenic. I can't imagine it being worse with all those plastic fumes added. They need a PPE policy that varies based on distance from the fire and the voume of that fire. Same with roofing. Breathing in bitumenous fumes with no vapor protection is foolish. I feel bad for this guy, and as a community we are losing a good person.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for all of our vets. My kids dad (my late ex husband) was a vet & I was a military wife to him. So I know the hardships of military life. I also love my country. But until our vets who fight & have fought for this great country are treated w/ respect & cared for as they were promised, I will no longer stand for our national anthem. Just MY WAY of quite protest. God bless you Sgt. Black. SALUTE!
Jon Stewart is one of the few stand-up, genuine "celebs". The more I see of him lately, the more I appreciate. As for Sgt Wesley Black, my heart breaks for him &his family. Our vets deserve better &it's unacceptable that we fail them, time&time again -despite their never failing us🇺🇸💔
Why are there burn pits in the first place? They are bad for the environment of the local population. Imagine your kids playing there and having to drink the ground water...
Thank you so much for your service, and for looking out for other vets who are in your situation. Hopefully you will be with your family longer than what is expected. Peace
I'm a veteran. Feels like no one really cares about us. People say thank you for your service but from most its just a phrase, not a true sentiment. I was a Marine Corps recruiter for three years. It's very clear that when you're out in the community and talking to families that most look down on the military. I served 22 years. I would say that nearly 90% of those I came in contact with could care less. I also feel that the VA minimizes our injuries and issues to save money and not pay out for claims. Not everyone would agree but these have been my experiences. The sacrifices made by our military is incomprehensible unless you have served or had family members that served. Some truly respect us. But sadly most do not.. Just my opinion, and the truth is most veterans really don't care or need recognition, We all respect each other and that's what matters
If the children, of those making our laws and setting our agendas, were serving, this country would do more for her veterans. If all had to serve, not like in Vietnam, where well off teens got a college deferment, our armed forced might treat veterans better. Sorry you've been discarded, like a broken toy soldier.
As a fellow Veteran I find this very ddistressing.My brother a Marine Corps Vietnam combat veteran is fighting his last battle with stage 4 Colon cancer. A result of: Agent Orange, misted all over jungle where his unit (3rd Mar Div) AO was. Quang Tri. So sad to see this hero in his final days. Prayers to all Vets afflicted with end stage diseases. HOOO-AAAHH ne desit virtus ducti amore patriae ATW
The burning chamber training is terrifyingly real ....but wouldnt gas masks take care of half rhese needless deaths?? How many decades is US military gonna kill their own soldiers ? Instead of issuing gas masks?
Sadly.. the VA will not allow burn pits to be to blame. It would be too expensive for them. They will just say there is no evidence for it. The same with Nukes in the Navy with cancer. Your exposure to radiation from the Navy didn't cause it.
Oh my God he's just a year younger than me truly sad and terrifying what's the time that he has I hope he lives everyday to the fullest God bless him for what he did for this country🤔
As far back as 1990 I remember seeing posted at the union hall the dangers of "Las Vegas Area 51" burn pits. That is why they were trying to keep the "Looky Lous" downwind away from the toxic burn pits. R.I.P. "Uniom Bros and Sistas"
Was on local national(Haji guard as we called it) and had to go around with them and pick up all the trash on kandahar, and then we took the deuce and a half to dump everything and we'd be hanging next to the pits for hours a week, just had a big chunk of skin cancer lopped off back in October. And also found out about the K2 funk last summer. Thanks Uncle Sam!
I am so sorry for this veteran. Oh My God ! Bless this man and his family. Wesley I am so sorry ! It makes me feel absolutely terrible. I will pray for you and your family
This saddened me. I pray to the Almighty God the beginning and end the author of life. Please heavenly father. Heal his body, heal him in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen
@@Tavat Says you in your hubris. How dare you question someone else's completely positive faith, well wishing and prayers. What you believe is your own business but don't go and bring someone down, that reflects an emptiness in you.
@@rft2001 Okay, Pharisee. Well-wishing and prayers is the product of a sick and dumb society that has lost its sense of priorities, reason, and common sense. I don’t have any respect for this belief, nor do I need to. Not only is “tearing down” faith necessary to uncover truth, it indicates that there are millions of us unwilling to live by the dumbass dictates of the religious. Don’t pray for sick soldiers. Stop voting for people who send them to war.
@@Tavat Your ego's judgmental nature is immense. Humankind always had religion from the shaman of the hunter/gatherers to the Sun Gods of the Agrarian cultures to incredibly deep and mystical traditions of the Buddhists, Hindus, Kabbala, and mystical Christianity all the way through to the Aquarian/New Age. It most likely always will. Every single society. It is an anthropological constant, a universal that has existed throughout history. You sound like a real true believer. Your ego says that little you knows that there is no universal consciousness or God? How can you be sure? Obviously, you can't but you sound like the most outspoken true believer of (pick your religion). And using language like "dumbass" only makes you look ignorant. I'm not telling you to believe. If you are so sure of your beliefs then that is on you, but the extreme way you are expressing your dislike of religion is indicative of some deeper psychological darkness or grief or anxiety. There is something there that you should explore a bit if you want to be a well-rounded/adjusted human being. That is your trip and we all have our own trips. The problem is when you try to go and evangelize your atheism and piss on someone else for their beliefs. Then you are just as bad as the worst evangelical. Don't be a buzzkill, there is way more to the universe than you or I will ever comprehend.
Dear friend, I truly feel for you. The Lord has seen your Sacrifices, your tears and frustration and has also heard your prayers, mine and all who are praying for you. He said in His Word, When you call I will answer. Ask and you shall be given. …Declare a thing and it shall come to pass. and many more. Just know dear friend, the Lord delights in our living and not in our dying. Hang in there and believe that, nothing is impossible with Him. I am also joining those praying for you and believing in your complete healing as of now. Receive it in Jesus’ Name.
cancer needs a cure... Lost both my parents to cancer was with them both till the end ,,, one of the worst deaths u can have ..the Amount of suffering you go through is unreal... Rest in peace to all who have lost their lives to this terrible disease..You will always be remembered and loved... I miss you like crazy mom
Yeah I agree with CNN on this issue, that is putting aside my petty grievance, what more do you want from me? I criticise CNN and I'm a troll, I give CNN credit where it is due, and I still get called a troll, there is no winning dealing with you people
People need to spend less time hugging flags and more time supporting vets.
give them respirators ffs
@Progenitor77 would be hilarious if you wore a mask in public
Are military stopped deafening decades ago, its now undercontrol of business, like a private military.
HA!!!
Whom are you talking about hugging flags???
When the chips are down, and facing certain death, I don’t know how this guy keeps it together. True patriot: courage and bravery. 🇺🇸
Unlike the bureaucrats who claim to care about the troops and do nothing to support them.
And never once did he have to tell you that he is a patriot. Bless his heart.
The explanation is the Kübler-Ross model, also known as five stages of grief
Sorry to hear this. Soldiers must be treated better by the Military!
agree! THEY are the reason we are living free THEY should be the role models
This is how they treat all the veterans. We are just disposable pieces on the board for all their concern.
@@ozarkcaveman6383 i know : ( i started protesting for the vets back in the 70's
Not just the military, the American government needs to treat those keeping us safe, so much better than they are being treated now.
@@ashleygreen1458 indeed indeed!
VA better Wake Up. We Vets Need to be Heard. Anything however short or long the deployed Can Relate to a Disability.
the VA did wake up, didn't you hear? they'll pay for your sex change now.
@@k333rl ,
Was that necessary?
The Trans issues are complicated. Dealing with soldiers with disabilities caused by what they did on duty should not be.
@Dearly Diane yeah....my schooling and upbringing didnt fuck up my mind...unlike every other adult..I got over my childhood trauma. But seeing someone disintegrate from a landmine IED and getting painted in their blood does fuck with you a bit.
No these people should have had help with this problem when it was known that it was a problem. I'm enraged about that these people who are trying to get help and the people at the Pentagon apparently have known about this particular problem and should have done something/ ANYTHING EXCEPT PUTTING THE PEOPLE'S LIVES IN MORE DANGER THAN THEY SHOULD HAVE FOR BURNING TRASH!!!
I think it's overly simplistic to blame the "VA" like Congress, and the Pentagon, have no input.
This brought tears to my eyes listening to Sgt. Black. Our brother's in arms need better medical attention by the VA. Keep fighting the fight, sir! 🇺🇸🙏❤️
We shouldn’t have to fight for what’s right.... we’re really going down the drain as a nation!😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🥲🥲🥲🥲
Me too! When the teared up I lost it😭
@Xhade Brinsbane ???????
@Xhade Brinsbane it's sow. Not sew
@Xhade Brinsbane You're a boil on the @ss of society, aren't ya.
OMG …. He is dying literally from serving his country. He is so young. 😭
Yep. Not even serving this country cause he was fighting a war in another country that has nothing to do with us.
@Xhade Brinsbane he didn’t sign up to die from burnpit fumes you dork. My guess is you haven’t done anything with your life.
Hello Greetings, How are you doing today and your family?
@@trantorthetroll8768 don’t let these type get under skin. It’s hard not to eradicate them because well, it’s illegal and murder is frowned upon. You just have to bite your tongue while the entitled ignorant and ungrateful reap the benefits. Democrats are ruining the country. Starting with the schools indoctrination of children and people having kids that don’t raise them. It’s a sad sad world
@Xhade Brinsbane "Sew"
You're too stupid to be real.
This is terrifying. I feel with this soldier who put their lives into danger serving the his country. RESPECT and PRAYERS FOR HIM, HE NEEDS MIRACLE FROM HEAVE. GOD BLESS YOU MAN🙏🙏🙏
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He needs military and healthcare reform from Congress.
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@@Tavat 🍋
@@lacrema9843 Healing prayers for Staff Sgt. Wesley Black.
I wish there was something we could do. If not for him, for his family. I know they'll be taken care of, somewhat, but losing a Dad and a Husband is so hard and not ok.
There are things that can be done. American medicine is not the answer. I don't want to offer alternatives to a closed mind.
@@jonathanmol4489 Don't dangle a carrot promising the cure for cancer. Wow you are a terrible person. If you are gonna keep your opinions to yourself, please keep them all to yourself so no one has to read your jerky responses. This is about our vets dying after they get back from war. Insensitive is the bare minimum descriptor for you. Just insulting people for fun while they are offering sympathies for dying vets? That computer screen you have there is a helluva confidence booster.
@@michellegaza7740 Yes, I am a horrible person with a disability. I try to spread joy and love to people I have never met on Sweetest day. Since 2005 I have sent out a handwritten poem to 36 people as an expression of goodwill. The $56 a pair means little to me. I make minimum wage. Hey, thanks for your support, you are the greatest patriot!
The poem includes a pair of bunnyslippers. 🤡
I totally agree.
Australia
This is horrific. We expect to send people into harm's way and then discharge them out into the world like nothing happened. It doesn't work.
Works well for the makers of war.
They don’t care about Vets unless it’s falsely associated with someone kneeling for an entirely different reason that has nothing to do with vets.
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This is absolutely horrific and many blessings to him and his family this is unacceptable and this is what angers Me as a progressive why is it that the men and women who serve our country have to " Wait" when the establishment dems and Republicans get whatever they want when THEY want it but our troops have to beg for this country to care for them and about them . I sware if we all unified and just don't show up to work , & refuse to pay our taxes and refuse give in to our politicians watch how quick things would get done i swear sometimes I'm so done with this country
sounds like those worked...
I know I’m a grammar Nazi, and I apologize, but it’s “swear.” I just want people to take your message seriously. I have a husband and three children serving active duty military. I can assure you, starting with the unnecessary Iraq war, republicans (Halliburton) have profited obscenely off defense contracts. It’s worse than you can imagine. And democrats don’t get tough with them.
@F RUclips republicans don't stand for anything except the cancellation of Dr. Seuss books.
You just fell for the dream
@F RUclips actually it was Dr. Seuss publishers who cancelled certain editions of their own books. It was the repubes that cried about it while at the same time cancelling Liz Cheney 'cause she had the guts to do what Kevin McC***sucka and Wretch McConnell couldn't do, tell the truth.
OMG. This is crazy! This needs to be stopped immediately!
No, it shouldn't even have started. We don't do that shit in Canada...
@@MarioStingerPerpetualTraveller umm I have been on duty burning shit on a FOB with Canadian soldiers. So
war in general needs to stop
@Fred Hope I hope not. there are more destruction than anything. Just resources and selfishness cause war
@Lalo same. I’ve had diarrhea since 2004. I weighed 200 when I got out now I’m so skinny I look like death
This is infuriating and heartbreaking. SOMETHING has to be done our military men and women should not be used fking lab rats! They should have been protected. Absolutely heartbreaking
Maybe stop cheerleading pointless wars based on lies. Ya think?
btw, jo jo wrote his own son's death sentance. if his claim is truthful.
@@alteknack2510 The president & staff have very little to do with day to day military practice .
My heart goes out to this veteran.
My father, a lifer with the USNAVY, exposed to asbestos, wasn’t given 100%
for his interstitial lung disease that killed him 5 years ago. We watched him struggle to breathe until the end.
Hello Anne, How are you doing today and your family?
And yet I bet you still support the US Military Industrial Complex 100% right.
Why isn't military doing gas / toxic fumes mask use whenever they schedule a burning of trash for all area military members???
Cost to much
The chemicals can also permeate into the skin not just through the mouth.
@Xhade Brinsbane I will pray for you. God bless.
@Xhade Brinsbane It would be justice if the people who sent him overseas to police "their assets" would be forced to breath toxic smoke and get cancer. Now that's justice!
Because the issued gas masks are for actual chemical warfare agents and not for toxic industrial chemicals or materials (TICs/TIMs). Wearing them might signal to the rest that an actual chemical attack is underway.
What they need are full-face respirators with HEPA pre-filters and toxic chemical cartridges. They would need to be trained in respirator usage and fit-tested for them according to worker safety laws. That is a huge undertaking and federal safety laws do not necessarily apply in a combat zone. The military may opt to follow civilian safety laws when it suits them, but in this case they choose the exemption to the law.
The seemingly innocuous has become the most deadly killer. My heart goes out to this man and his family.
@hopeless Do you just like fighting? I meant innocous in the sense that the thing you ignore as "not that serious" could kill. I worked in a factory breathing in all sorts of chemicals without thinking about the damage it could be doing to me. It is clear that these soldiers are breathing in toxic fumes but did you see a gas mask anywhere? Stop with your baseless attack.
Can u please explain your comment and the big word u use thanks
@@AdeKingProductions Gas mask that's a great 💡
@@detrelllevert2457 Innocous means not harmful, can be ignored. By adding seemingly, it means if you take it lightly, it could harm you. A gas filtering mask isn't 100% protection but it gives you a chance. Limited exposure with protection is how we move in dangerous environments.
He passed away in November, rest in peace.
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We need better care of our soldiers and vets.
Stop voting for Republicans.
@@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence What is your reasoning?
@@truthoverfacts9254 I can't post links but look it up.
Since the 1980's there have been several D- attempts to end military burn pits. ALWAYS oppossed by the GOP.
@@truthoverfacts9254 Actually started with the "non-existant" Roswell Air Base.
This is when these burn pits and horrendous after effects came into public knowledge.
@Xhade Brinsbane keep spouting the same shit on every comment. It really should be you instead.
When I think about complaining about my circumstances. Someone comes along and reduces my complaints into whinning. I hope this gets rectified quickly
Same ❤
You are right ...
I don't like using other peoples misery to uplift yourself. Let's keep the focus on the person hurting.
@@freepatriot9070 I'm uplifting myself, I'm just saying what I wanted to complain about is not even worth discussing in comparison to what some people have to deal with. Therefore, I rather them to be heard before I want someone to hear me. Out of respect,, I place my own "complaints" on the back-burner.
@@freepatriot9070 I have never met a patriot that had to tell me they're a patriot. Just sayin'
This surprises no one. Ever heard of agent Orange? They couldn’t give him a respirator? This is disgusting.
@Brandy Courvoisier Could you link a source please? I want to read more about it.
@@JoseyWales1865 he meant gulf war syndrome. It’s basically PTSD 2.
@@JoseyWales1865 I don’t know why he called it a “virus”
@@JoseyWales1865 if you truly want to read more about it, you need only search for "effects of using depleted uranium ammunition" as, that's what causes the mysterious syndrome.
As a matter of fact, the Phd who engineered it, started warning people about how dangerous it is. Those talks are here on RUclips.
Put some leg work into it, and stop expecting everyone else to do your research for you, please.
Have a nice f'n day!
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The difference between this and agent orange, he knew the govt did agent orange when he signed up, still thought it was ok to join, so long as it was done to other people. Agent orange demonstrated the inhumanity and lack of transparency that existed in the command, yet he still joined . He’s ok with killing other people to keep gas cheap and profitable, but when the sacrifice is on him, wants compensation. Ahh, too bad.
The only people that benefited the most from the Afghan war, were private contractors.
along with Iraq and yet it took them 10 years to rebuild the "twin Towers" and still counting.
it is beyond disgusting, this country's b.s.
wars all over the planet. all the fake rhetoric
boils down to $ for the wrong people every time. Christians & Republicans have no solution
bc they enjoy this stupid, vacant mock- patriotism. i am too angry to write any further.
Christians think they care but do not follow the actual teachings of their Christ, no way. the
Republican positions are against America's principles but jabber on like they've got the real answers - all the above = $ lust & lies.
i wish they'd take their lemming ways right
off the nearest, steepest cliff & stay gone. it
will be a better America without such trash
blowing through our private/public live. GTH.
Not great leadership to put their soldiers into harm's way of obviously toxic smoke/fumes. This gentleman is absolutely doing the right thing to tell them what they SHOULD already KNOW. Senseless and completely disrespectful of human life.
They refer to the soldier as expendables enjoy your freedom, came at a cost to 1 percent of the population who were able.
@@josephsouth4795 Every generation in my family has served since WW1. I do hope that this kind of awareness forces change. But yeah, I can't even begin to imagine how much trash and expendable materials is thrown away. I had not thought of that intensity of the logistics before.
Every man and woman that had to put up w the pits deserve there respect and life. I was in Balad, side by side with my veteran brother and sisters in this. Brain tumors stomach tumors lung illnesses blindness tinitus and I never fired a shot. I was a heavy equipment op in 04-06 and it's horrible to fight terrorism and die from trash fires
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I really feel for these soldiers who have had this exposure. And I have to ask who thought that burn pits fueled with Diesel Fuel were a good idea to begin with? Fuel needs to be handled with care at all times and it is total negligence, arrogance, thoughtlessness, and disregard for basic safety for this to have happened. Plus honestly a dash of macho mentality. We need to take care of these soldiers AND we need to talk about this attitude of disregard that created this problem to begin with.
cookin "correctional use only"steaks with carboard and jp8 fuel wasnt probly good either..fml. Praying for this warrior.
This has been going on way to long. Gunny Bill Chick, retired Marine, died the same way from Desert Storm burn pits. We called it Desert Storm Syndrome.
Seems to me like there is another way of observing the burn pits or guarding them than to have a soldier standing at a post while guarding garbage. There should be a perimeter or something established and cameras or low flying heat resistant drones flying over to monitor safe burning conditions. Why is there someone not thinking of these kinds of things? God bless this man and his family. He gave his youth serving this country and this is what he gets in return. How awful. This is outrageous! What a sad life when you get a death sentence before you’ve had a fair chance to live.
He wasn’t guarding it or watching the burn pit. ECP stands for entry control point, it’s where people and vehicles can move in and out of the base. Burn pits are usually close by for ease of use so we don’t have to go far out of the base.
We can't avoid it. Also it's not just our burn pits, the locals pretty much burn everything. So going out on patrols during the early mornings or at night is pretty much like going through a giant dump on fire. There are fire pits scattered all along the highways and roads, then we have to stand above a barrel with a gas mask and pour diesel over literal shit and burn that while we stir it...
The solution is to legalize marijuana like we did during World War II.
Cannabis Sativa is hemp. Cannabis Sativa is also "Marijuana." Cannabis Sativa was outlawed in 1937 as the world's most dangerous drug, "Marihuana." But after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the US Department of Agriculture made a 14-minute instructional film for American farmers titled *Hemp For Victory* on how to cultivate and harvest Cannabis Sativa to make equipment for the military during World War II. The Federal license to grow hemp that is shown three minutes into the video reads, "Producer of Marihuana."
Industrial hemp can be made into virtually anything that is not glass or metal. Ford Motor Company made a plastic car body using hemp in 1941, and the 2008 Lotus Eco Elise sportscar was made nearly entirely from hemp. There are videos of both vehicles on RUclips. This means that any plastic products ranging from cellophane to water bottles to laptop computers could have been made non-toxic from the stalks of "Marihuana" plants since our grandparents were young.
Additionally, the US Department of Agriculture reported in Bulletin 404 written in 1916 that one acre of Cannabis hemp can make as much paper as four acres of trees, which means that global deforestation could have ended over 100 years ago.
The 1942 USDA film, Hemp For Victory, was kept out of history books and public debates from 1945 until 1989, and has been ignored by everyone for the 30 years that it's been public. There is an official US National Archives link to the video available through any search engine. It is also available on several RUclips channels. It's been on everyone's cellphones for years and no one notices.
The film is only 14-minutes long and changes the last 75 years of human history, US domestic and foreign policy, and global industry.
Garbage isn't necessarily garbage. I'll agree we can do better, but imagining it's all useless garbage is not the right starting point. In a combat zone, anything can be weaponized. For what it's worth, I've seen 2 such pits personally. I thought at the time how horrible it was, but it does serve a purpose.
Exactly right!
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This is terrible. I'm so sorry this happened to you Sgt Black. You and all of our veterans and active military deserve so much better.
Thank you for your service sounds trite since you have given so much, but from my heart, thank you and God be with you and your family.
I'll keep you in my prayers, for real, not just saying that.
This should never have happened to you.
That’s so darn sad. They fight for their country and then they are expandable.
They always have been. It needs to change. Not just for the humanity, but for all our futures.
Sorry but did you mean expendable?
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Clearly they did. Which doesn't even minimally diminish their message.
@@jackywhite880 I didn't say it did. I thought she'd like to know so she could correct it that is all.
So sad. 🥺God Bless this man, and his family.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@Biden TheMurderer “these losers” is referring to who?
That's terrible, can somebody do something for these selfless soldiers?
My generation had to fight for health care and disability rights for Agent Orange. Hope this Gulf War generation doesn't have to wait 30 years and fight the battle of attrition to get what they deserve. These folks have given all. It is up to us to give them care and treatment and RESPECT.
@Fred Hope I didn't know that. Thank you.
@Fred Hope Bohphal India
@Fred Hope That was in Bhopal wasn't it ? Monsanto is a horrible corporation. They know the damage they create, with their poisons and toxic waste, yet if the stockholders are happy with the bottom line . . . . they don't care as lit as it doesn't happen in their back yard.
@Fred Hope You know that they KNEW how lethal this stuff was. The least they could have done was issue precautions about protective clothing or filtration masks. Bastards.
Let’s not forget the usage of DU rounds.
And the Anthrax coctail with squalene and fluoroquinolone.
They should be outlawed😼
Oh dude, my heart breaks for everyone in the fight against cancer. I just want to hug you and your family. Stay focused and Godspeed. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself.
Treat with RESPECT and CARE for these HERO'S, if NOT we have LOST the SOUL of the COUNTRY.
The Dark Side the Military Doesn't Want ... Too Know. 🇺🇲😶😶😶
Whoever sees this, you are awesome!
You are awesome too mate :D
No more burn pits in life. We should be better.
Verified man
Spam somewhere else
I am Awesome !! . I know what is done is done pertaining to this young man . But never give up !! . I am not a vet but I have Stage 4 cancer as well . Fight the good fight , Hold on ..Glory to God . Make everyday count .. Expect a Miracle
Happy to use our family members to fight their wars, but throw them to the curb when they need something back.
Pathetic
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I couldn't have said it better myself.
This is so sad 😞😥😢
Hi Williams how are you doing?
My boss, whom also fought in the war, had a buddy of his die from cancer. He told me that it was the burning of crap and all it's toxic elements
That just breaks my heart. Prayers and such a brave man.
God bless this war vet✨
This is so heartbreaking to hear. This country should do much better by our Veterans. My Father died much too early because of his service to this country. Only one of his brothers who served lived past 70 yrs old.
This is why cancer needs to be priority #1 to find a cure. So sad..
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I am so, so sorry. Thank you so much for stepping up for this country, and I will pray for peace for you and your family.
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Hello Greetings, How are you doing today and your family?
Why can’t they just make burn pits very minimal, or abolish them completely, this is a bipartisan issue
Because there are no municipal waste management services and facilities in a COMBAT zone. Imagine otherwise the enemy setting off IEDs along that convoy of trash compactor trucks serving the base on their way to the landfill. That trash contractor would not last a week.
This breaks my heart…..
Diesel fuel itself is known to be carcinogenic. I can't imagine it being worse with all those plastic fumes added. They need a PPE policy that varies based on distance from the fire and the voume of that fire. Same with roofing. Breathing in bitumenous fumes with no vapor protection is foolish.
I feel bad for this guy, and as a community we are losing a good person.
It's a darn Shame. My heart aches for these men and women and their loved ones. Sending love and prayers to you.
GOD bless✌🏾💕🙏🏾
I pray that the US do the right thing by these brave Veterans. God bless this
young man and his family in JESUS name Amen
This man is a True Hero.
Sad Sad Story.
I hope this soldier gets better. I hope his colon stage 4 cancer gets cured. Thank you for your service 💕
I have nothing but the utmost respect for all of our vets.
My kids dad (my late ex husband) was a vet & I was a military wife to him. So I know the hardships of military life.
I also love my country.
But until our vets who fight & have fought for this great country are treated w/ respect & cared for as they were promised, I will no longer stand for our national anthem.
Just MY WAY of quite protest.
God bless you Sgt. Black. SALUTE!
thank you and your x husband for his service god bless.
Jon Stewart is one of the few stand-up, genuine "celebs". The more I see of him lately, the more I appreciate.
As for Sgt Wesley Black, my heart breaks for him &his family. Our vets deserve better &it's unacceptable that we fail them, time&time again -despite their never failing us🇺🇸💔
Hello Liz, How are you doing today and your family?
Why are there burn pits in the first place? They are bad for the environment of the local population. Imagine your kids playing there and having to drink the ground water...
That is the SADDEST thing I've ever heard
My heart breaks for this man.
It is not this is what they asked for and deserve. Going and finding the worst possible side of anything in this world and joining it.
@@herrwahnsinn4229 what is wrong with you?
God bless you. Thank you for all you have done for us.
Hello Kathy, How are you doing today and your family?
Hi Kathy
Thank you so much for your service, and for looking out for other vets who are in your situation. Hopefully you will be with your family longer than what is expected.
Peace
To anyone fighting cancer, I hope you fight well, do what you can, you should feed your body with pure health .
Damn I’m sorry brother thanks for your service and your brothers
Forever war....the colonels and generals can’t seem to find another way.
Thank you and I'm sorry to Staff Sgt Black. ❤
I'm a veteran. Feels like no one really cares about us. People say thank you for your service but from most its just a phrase, not a true sentiment. I was a Marine Corps recruiter for three years. It's very clear that when you're out in the community and talking to families that most look down on the military. I served 22 years. I would say that nearly 90% of those I came in contact with could care less. I also feel that the VA minimizes our injuries and issues to save money and not pay out for claims. Not everyone would agree but these have been my experiences. The sacrifices made by our military is incomprehensible unless you have served or had family members that served.
Some truly respect us. But sadly most do not..
Just my opinion, and the truth is most veterans really don't care or need recognition, We all respect each other and that's what matters
Thank you for your service. The VA has treated vets pretty poorly for a very long time. They need decent funding and a complete overhaul.
If the children, of those making our laws and setting our agendas, were serving, this country would do more for her veterans. If all had to serve, not like in Vietnam, where well off teens got a college deferment, our armed forced might treat veterans better. Sorry you've been discarded, like a broken toy soldier.
Well you can’t expect people to bow down and weep at you either. I think most people don’t care because YOU decided to do it, no one else.
This is beyond sad. I am so sorry Sgt. Black, that while defending our Country you were exposed to this poison.
Thank you for your service. Praying for a healing!
My heart is breaking.
If you reading this have a good day please
As a fellow Veteran I find this very ddistressing.My brother a Marine Corps Vietnam combat veteran is fighting his last battle with stage 4 Colon cancer. A result of: Agent Orange, misted all over jungle where his unit (3rd Mar Div) AO was. Quang Tri. So sad to see this hero in his final days. Prayers to all Vets afflicted with end stage diseases. HOOO-AAAHH ne desit virtus ducti amore patriae ATW
So sorry bud
So very sad. My thoughts and prayers go out to this warrior and his family.
while serving. fuck they made us breathe smoke in training. just the one time.
The burning chamber training is terrifyingly real ....but wouldnt gas masks take care of half rhese needless deaths?? How many decades is US military gonna kill their own soldiers ? Instead of issuing gas masks?
@@michellemcguire7032 ... or not exposing soldiers to hazardous chemicals in the first place.
Vietnam, Agent Orange taught them nothing.
Sadly.. the VA will not allow burn pits to be to blame. It would be too expensive for them. They will just say there is no evidence for it. The same with Nukes in the Navy with cancer. Your exposure to radiation from the Navy didn't cause it.
2% of people who are watching this comment I wish their parents still alive more than 100 years 💖💗💗💕God bless you 😘😘😘😘
Poor guy 🙏🏽 for u and ur family. Thank you so much and god bless you
Oh my God he's just a year younger than me truly sad and terrifying what's the time that he has I hope he lives everyday to the fullest God bless him for what he did for this country🤔
This is so sad.. Thank you for your service. Blessings to you and your family!!
As far back as 1990 I remember seeing posted at the union hall the dangers of "Las Vegas Area 51" burn pits. That is why they were trying to keep the "Looky Lous" downwind away from the toxic burn pits. R.I.P. "Uniom Bros and Sistas"
Man this is heartbreaking
Like Agent Orange these burn pits are killing good people. It's like the long arm of war reaches across the ocean
It was not just agent organ we had barrels in the lout houses we had to burn
Thank you for reporting on this. Thank to all vets for selfless service. Prayers for safety and health.
Was on local national(Haji guard as we called it) and had to go around with them and pick up all the trash on kandahar, and then we took the deuce and a half to dump everything and we'd be hanging next to the pits for hours a week, just had a big chunk of skin cancer lopped off back in October. And also found out about the K2 funk last summer. Thanks Uncle Sam!
Thank you for your service and prayers for your recovery. No one should have to experience that.
As a retired, 2 war veteran. I can tell you that our government does not give a fuck about us vets.
“It was safe to breathe. 👍” - Congress
I am so sorry for this veteran. Oh My God ! Bless this man and his family. Wesley I am so sorry ! It makes me feel absolutely terrible. I will pray for you and your family
They need to hurry up and bring out the med beds, this man or any soldier don’t need to die, this government just need to stop playing games
This is terrible. I am so sorry. Thank you to him and his family for his service.
This is outrageous. "long term health effects" What about death??
Sending Healing prayers , much love to you , wife and son. This country owes you much. keep fighting.
Reminds me of our Veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
My heart breaks for this man...
Deal Lord take care of him 🙏
This saddened me. I pray to the Almighty God the beginning and end the author of life. Please heavenly father. Heal his body, heal him in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen
That won’t help.
@@Tavat Says you in your hubris. How dare you question someone else's completely positive faith, well wishing and prayers. What you believe is your own business but don't go and bring someone down, that reflects an emptiness in you.
@@rft2001 Okay, Pharisee. Well-wishing and prayers is the product of a sick and dumb society that has lost its sense of priorities, reason, and common sense. I don’t have any respect for this belief, nor do I need to. Not only is “tearing down” faith necessary to uncover truth, it indicates that there are millions of us unwilling to live by the dumbass dictates of the religious.
Don’t pray for sick soldiers. Stop voting for people who send them to war.
@@Tavat Your ego's judgmental nature is immense. Humankind always had religion from the shaman of the hunter/gatherers to the Sun Gods of the Agrarian cultures to incredibly deep and mystical traditions of the Buddhists, Hindus, Kabbala, and mystical Christianity all the way through to the Aquarian/New Age. It most likely always will. Every single society. It is an anthropological constant, a universal that has existed throughout history.
You sound like a real true believer. Your ego says that little you knows that there is no universal consciousness or God? How can you be sure? Obviously, you can't but you sound like the most outspoken true believer of (pick your religion). And using language like "dumbass" only makes you look ignorant.
I'm not telling you to believe. If you are so sure of your beliefs then that is on you, but the extreme way you are expressing your dislike of religion is indicative of some deeper psychological darkness or grief or anxiety. There is something there that you should explore a bit if you want to be a well-rounded/adjusted human being. That is your trip and we all have our own trips. The problem is when you try to go and evangelize your atheism and piss on someone else for their beliefs. Then you are just as bad as the worst evangelical. Don't be a buzzkill, there is way more to the universe than you or I will ever comprehend.
If God allowed Covid to happen, I wouldn't count on God to heal a single person
Heartbreaking...
Dear friend, I truly feel for you. The Lord has seen your Sacrifices, your tears and frustration and has also heard your prayers, mine and all who are praying for you. He said in His Word, When you call I will answer. Ask and you shall be given. …Declare a thing and it shall come to pass. and many more. Just know dear friend, the Lord delights in our living and not in our dying. Hang in there and believe that, nothing is impossible with Him. I am also joining those praying for you and believing in your complete healing as of now. Receive it in Jesus’ Name.
Oh my. I had no idea. Thank you to this soldier and CNN for exposing this to a larger audience.
Were they wearing breathing masks
What difference does it make? Why not dispose of trash in the proper way. Non toxic ways.
@@Larissa-im9pm I think there's so much they have to burn it
cancer needs a cure... Lost both my parents to cancer was with them both till the end ,,, one of the worst deaths u can have ..the Amount of suffering you go through is unreal... Rest in peace to all who have lost their lives to this terrible disease..You will always be remembered and loved... I miss you like crazy mom
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Have you seen Dani Speegle yet?
God bless you, bro! #SemperFi
CNN covering an important issue for once.
They do need to stop the burning.
For God's sake, will you people grow up. This story is about an American hero, not your petty grievances.
These trolls need to piss off I knew at least one of these wastes of space would be here.
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Yeah I agree with CNN on this issue, that is putting aside my petty grievance, what more do you want from me? I criticise CNN and I'm a troll, I give CNN credit where it is due, and I still get called a troll, there is no winning dealing with you people
@@chrisbammer8679 Your petty "for once" is a lie they cover important stories all the time get over yourself.