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Veterans groups hope Beau Biden's death will lead president to help ailing post-9/11 veterans


Veterans groups hope Beau Biden’s death will lead president to help ailing post-9/11 veterans
Abraham Mahshie
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In his first 10 days as president, Joe Biden visited wounded service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was more than a somber return to the place where his son, Beau, died from a rare brain cancer in 2015. It was a sign to ailing veterans and advocacy groups that the president might deliver the care post-9/11 veterans have struggled for decades to get.
“Beau Biden almost certainly died of exposure, probably to a burn pit,” said Afghanistan veteran Mark Jackson, who works on behalf of veterans suffering rare diseases and ailments after being stationed at a contaminated secret base in Uzbekistan known as K2. ....

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That bill, a resolution of the U.S. House of Representatives, has seen no action since being assigned to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and the House Committee on Armed Services on Feb. 25 of last year.
The resolution calls for the defense secretary to conduct a study on toxic exposures and any subsequent adverse health effects experienced by U.S. troops assigned to the Uzbek base during the time it was leased, at no charge, by the U.S. government from the government of Uzbekistan.
The United States began leasing the base, colloquially known as K2, from the Uzbek government in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks. K2 provided an attractive option for the U.S. to project military power into Afghanistan in the fight against Islamic extremist al-Qaida and Taliban forces. ....

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