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In Afghanistan and Iraq, especially in the early years, soldiers burned their waste in big, open-air pits.
“A burn pit’s just a big hole in the ground. You push dirt up and just have trash there, and light it on fire and walk away,” says Army veteran Eric Mullins.
Eric Mullins is an Army veteran who served in Iraq in 2003 and again in 2008.
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Mullins and I met up in Campus Martius Park in Detroit, near where he works.
He served in Iraq in 2003 and again in 2008. On his first tour, he was assigned to burn barrels of human waste.
[guest author: Vivian Leven, Behaviorist at Positive Dog Solutions ]
The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful, but one gift for those of us living with animals is that we have been able to spend a lot more time with our four-legged companions.
Getting used to having us humans at home was relatively easy for most of the animals. The transition back to being away is going to be much harder. Are you prepared? If you adopted an animal recently, do you know how your pet will respond when you are gone for hours at a time? Best to find out now so you can plan ahead and have no surprises.