NM senators sponsor bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits
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"Agent Orange was an overlooked but potentially lethal threat to soldiers and civilians in Vietnam.
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"Agent Orange was an overlooked but potentially lethal threat to soldiers and civilians in Vietnam.
The lesson from that painful chapter in military history could lead to better medical treatment for a new generation of veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
New Mexico's U.S. senators are among those sponsoring a bill to create a national registry of veterans who were exposed to open-air burn pits used to dispose of waste. The measure was introduced last week.
It would be modeled after the Agent Orange Registry, which tracked servicemen from the 1960s who were in Asian forests or farmlands sprayed with the herbicide."
