Burn Pits Registry
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We urge service members to sign up for our registry as an independent way to track and monitor deployment-related health concerns. Joining the registry ensures that any respiratory symptoms, health conditions, or concerns you’ve experienced post-deployment are documented. This information helps us advocate for better care, research, and policies that address the unique health needs of those exposed to environmental hazards during their service.
On August 1, 2024, the VA and U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced critical updates to the registry including: the broadening of participation criteria; clear opt-out procedures; and automatic inclusion procedures based on DOD records that vastly expand the number of participating Veterans and service members.
Why Two Registries?
In 2013 Congress enacted Public Law 112-260, directing the Department of Veteran Affairs to establish and maintain the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry for Service Members who may have been exposed to toxic airborne chemicals and fumes generated by open air burn pits.
At the time, the VA's stance was that research did not show evidence of long-term health problems from exposure to burn pits. The VA registry also does not permit service members to submit updated health information or for a dependent to submit a death entry by proxy.
Burn Pits 360 established our own voluntary independent registry to monitor the health of war fighters exposed to deployment related toxic exposures such as burn pits. The Burn Pits 360 registry allows eligible Veterans and active service members to document their exposures, report health concerns, update information on changes to comorbidities through an online questionnaire that allows us to access information about the health, legal, or social service needs of registrants and thus follow up with individuals to provide critical resources, referrals, or direct care.
While the PACT Act has passed, veterans and service members exposed to burn pits have immediate needs. And failure to connect to a provider or advocate and obtain vital information bridging the gap between unmet needs and service delivery access can leave warriors frustrated, isolated, and with a continued loss in quality of life and potentially premature death.
As of August 1st, 2024 the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched the redesigned Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry (the Burn Pit Registry) so that Veterans and service members (living or deceased) who, per DOD records, served in the military campaigns or theater of operations listed below from August 2, 1990, through August 31, 2021, will be automatically included:
•Operations and Campaigns: Desert Shield and Desert Storm (ODS/S); Iraqi Freedom (OIF); Enduring Freedom (OEF); and New Dawn (OND)
•Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, and waters of the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Red Sea
•The Southwest Asia theater of military operations and Egypt
•Afghanistan, Djibouti, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Uzbekistan, or Yemen after September 11, 2001
•Associated airspaces of the countries and bodies of water listed above.
Learn More about the Redesigned VA Registry Here
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