Retired Chief Master Sgt. Ken McDonald of the 148th Air National Guard said there was no way to avoid exposure to the massive open-air burn pit at the Balad air base in Iraq. The "burn pit," as it is ...

A Marine at Forward Operating Base Zeebrudge in Helmand province, Afghanistan, throws trash into a burn pit on Mar. 6, 2013. (Sgt. Anthony L. Ortiz/Marine Corps) EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2008, Military Times ...

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Smoke billows in from all sides as Sgt. Richard Ganske, 84th Combat Engineer Battalion, pushes a bulldozer deep into the flames of the burn pit at Balad Air Base in 2004 to keep burnable items ...

BALAD, Iraq, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Last month, Iraqi authorities gave families displaced by the war against Islamic State just 48 hours to pack up and leave the Al-Ishaki camp before it was closed. When ...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq, June 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is working to transition authority of the Balad operational base in Iraq to reflect its evolving joint status with the Air Force. Air Force ...

BALAD, Iraq — Democracy arrived Friday at this city north of Baghdad. Sort of. A vote billed as a “selection,” not an election, gave citizens a chance to elect a general council. The ...

Boatsie's Boxes started out sending packages to the base hospital in Balad, Iraq, and now gives goodies to several military hospitals as well as young troops deployed for the first time. In addition, ...

(AP) - The number of people with strong Minnesota ties who have died in connection with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reached 40 when the Department of Defense announced that Spec. Kyle R. Miller ...

Lockheed Martin has decided to evacuate all of its technicians from Iraq’s Balad Airbase near Baghdad due to the failure of the Iraqi government to prevent repeated militia rocket attacks on it. The ...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Colonel Lance Kittleson is looking forward to spending Christmas with his family next year as U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq 7-1/2 years after the invasion that ...

The 402nd Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB) is the single face to the field for Army Materiel Command (AMC) sustainment logistics forming a Materiel Enterprise in Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar that ...