A federal watchdog agency says the U.S. military is endangering the health of troops and civilians working at the main Marine Corps base in Afghanistan by burning solid waste in open pits even as ...

Kate Hendricks Thomas rappels from a wall at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina in an undated handout photo ... items into a burn pit at Balad Air Base in Iraq, March ...

Julie Tomáška knew that living in the shadow of a burning waste ... these burn pits ... 24 hours a day," she said. The burn pit was the inescapable backdrop to life on the Balad air base in ...