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The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers Hardcover – February 16, 2016

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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Hot Books (February 16, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1510705732
  • ISBN-13: 978-1510705739
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn amazing job, unflinchingly telling our story
By Rick A. on January 31, 2016
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SSG Hickman, well done! We have never met, but you've done an amazing job, unflinchingly telling our story. In 2004 I wondered why the captured Sarin Nerve Agent weapons we were loading onto C-17's in Baghdad never made the news. I wondered why I was plagued with rashes and why my short term memory was so messed up after I got back from the desert. Later on I wondered why I met so much resistance from VSO's and the VA when I wanted to file a claim after I was diagnosed with a very rare and lethal form of cancer. Joe Hickman asks these same questions I was asking myself. He has gone even further and dug up lots of answers to them. Nothing in this book can change what happened. But reading our story, told so brilliantly, fills me with gratitude that it is being told. Great work! Thank you Joe!!!
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book from veteran Joseph Hickman!
By Book Reviewer on February 14, 2016
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Many people are familiar with Agent Orange's effects on civilians and soldiers as a result of the Vietnam War. For those who aren't familiar, the United States and South Vietnamese army used Agent Orange to combat the North Vietnamese Army and Vietcong concealing themselves in the Vietnam jungle brush. Agent Orange was an herbicide that killed jungle brush and "created fields of fire where the enemy could no longer hide." Agent Orange was used for 10 years, killed 20% of Vietnam's plant life and sickened thousands of Vietnamese and many US troops. "As soldiers first started coming home from Vietnam, many were plaued with strange illnesses and cancers that couldn't at first be explained." By the end of the war thousands of people were sick and the veterans soon realized that they had all served in areas where Agent Orange was sprayed. "The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs initially denied that Agent Orange was hazardous and refused to provide the veterans with medical benefits. It took many years and hundreds of independent studies on the damaging effects of Agent Orange before the DOD finally acknowledged that the U.S. military had inadvertently poisoned tens of thousands of its own soldiers."

I thought the U.S. wrongly using chemicals and simultaneously poisoning its own soldiers ended with the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Joseph Hickman, a former US Marine and Army Sergeant tells the poignant and shocking story of the chemical war practiced on GIs in Iraq and Afghanistan-by their own commanding officers. Hickman tells this story through his own personal story in addition to the stories of other Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. The U.S. military is poisoning its soldiers as much today as it did during the Vietnam War.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Vitally Important, Must-Read Book
By Shaun D. Mullen on February 21, 2016
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It probably never will be known with certainty why Major Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III, the son of Vice President Joe Biden, left for Iraq a healthy and vibrant 40-year-old man only to return home a year later to succumb to a series of mysterious and unexplained illnesses that metamorphosed into incurable brain cancer that took his life at age 46. But a convincing if circumstantial case can be made that the cause was exposure to toxic smoke from immense open-air burn pits at Camp Victory and another base where Beau Biden was bivouacked.

One of the more insidious backstories of the Iraq war, which Joe Biden enthusiastically supported as a Democratic senator from Delaware, is how the friends of his predecessor, Dick Cheney, at Halliburton got rich providing housing, meals, water and many other services to Beau Biden and hundreds of thousands of other American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, at a cost of an estimated $39.5 billion by reliable estimates, much of it in no-bid contracts as the Pentagon outsourced many of the non-combat duties handled by the military in previous wars.   

In this shocking new book, investigative journalist Joseph Hickman, himself a Marine and Army veteran, asserts that Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, where Cheney was CEO before he became vice president, poisoned thousands of American soldiers and many thousands more Iraqis with the toxic smoke from the burn pits they operated in place of the incinerators typically run by the military.  Some of the burn pits were operated on or near chemical warfare sites from Saddam Hussein's rule.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother tragedy, another coverup.
By Luv 2 read on March 8, 2016
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Hugely important, well documented, and very well written. If you truly "support our troops", this book will become a textbook! Don't look for it in a military PX or Exchange store, however. The Pentagon won't allow it on their book store shelves, lest their troops become enlightened about how they are being poisoned and ignored. Like the Agent Orange scandal of the Vietnam era, this story gives the army's advertising slogan "An Army of One" a most ominous and disturbing meaning.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWe would like to extend to you a hearty congratulations on the ...
By Henry R. Jordan on March 14, 2016
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Dear CMSgt Jordan,

We would like to extend to you a hearty congratulations on the recent disapproval of your VA disability application. We are more than proud to be able to offer you yet another opportunity to exhibit your dedication to the core value of "Service Before Self".

We appreciate your dedication and greatly admire the fact that you enlisted and served during four different decades, tirelessly performed assigned duties, and voluntarily deployed on a combat tour in order to provide mature and stable leadership to our junior troops.

We are especially pleased that we were able to supply you with the opportunity to sacrifice your health in service to your country. The derision and scorn that you received upon your return to home base was designed to further develop your character and provide you with additional opportunity to exhibit your ability and willingness to accept hardship and sacrifice as the character building opportunities that they are certainly meant to be.

Thank you for understanding that supervision and leadership sincerely do "not" have your welfare and well being in mind. We do appreciate your willingness to avoid forcing them to glimpse a harsh sample of reality, instead allowing them to continue their illusion of a military branch filled with Shiny Happy People, Unicorns, and Cotton Candy Rainbows.

As a military professional you should be commended on your ability to understand that the medical personnel that you were lead to believe are in place to assist you are only concerned with your ability to pass your semi annual fitness assessment and insuring that problems and concerns are not allowed to rise to a level which could reflect badly upon the unit leadership.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsThe Burn Pits - Read it and weep...

This book is a must-read for anyone who calls themselves a Patriot and who loves this country and who believes we owe it to our soldiers to make good on the promises we make... Read more

Published 9 hours ago by E. Day
5.0 out of 5 starsStrange behavior: it's the pits!

We certainly do strange things to ourselves. Then we go out and jog, eat this and don't eat that, and so on and on. Read more

Published 13 hours ago by Robin C. Brown
3.0 out of 5 starsMilitary burn pits... an issue to be concerned about, and people to be...

I appreciate what author Joseph Hickman is attempting to do in The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers. Read more

Published 16 hours ago by R S Cobblestone
5.0 out of 5 starsA Hard and Necessary Read For Those Who Care About Speaking Truths To...

Another in a long and distinguished line of books that are currently exposing the inhumanity of our elitist leaders; their hypocritical two-faced TV side, versus the reality their... Read more

Published 6 days ago by R. A. Barricklow(Scaramouche)
5.0 out of 5 starsEye-opening

This is an eye-opening book and a must read. Time and time again, we have left our soldiers, the ones who who risked their lives for our country, to suffer with physical and... Read more

Published 8 days ago by Squeal
5.0 out of 5 starsA look at a toxic legacy

True or false?

"Under most conditions, breathing smoke from trash and human waste does not result in any risk to short- or long-term health. Read more

Published 8 days ago by E.M. Bristol
5.0 out of 5 starsINCREDIBLY disturbing TRUTH

For those of us who remember the horrors of Agent Orange usage in Vietnam, this is an acid flashback. Read more

Published 9 days ago by Dan Seidman
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

A must read for all. Couldn't put it down

Published 13 days ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsyet this book shows the real story of our country's way of taking care...

this is a very disturbing book to read. Watching the tv, all the flag waving and praise for our soldiers, yet this book shows the real story of our country's way of taking care of... Read more

Published 13 days ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsFive stars not because the book is uplifting, but because it's crucial

“The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” by Joseph Hickman arrived in the mail yesterday; that I’m reviewing it this morning says more than anything else about how... Read more

Published 16 days ago by Trudie Barreras

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