While serving at Balad, the largest military base in Iraq, he had lived near a large ... Known in military jargon as a ‘burn pit’, it was where jet fuel was used, day and night, to set fire ...

As an Army infantryman, Ernest Barrington was very familiar with the thick smoke and fumes that came off the burn pit at Joint Base Balad in Iraq. The toxic dust that wafted from the huge, open ...