Soldiers returning home from combat zones have a veteran support group, a multitude of charity organizations and the entire Government agency that intended to see their needs for diseases and injuries. But performers who take over the job in these same areas have not had such institutional support – so far.
These workers face the same mental traumas associated with combat schedule, and the thousands who have been exposed to burning pits have faced the same cancers who have taken over the lives of members of the US service. But before the war zone association (AOWC) formed this week, they did not have any of the same support groups that take care of the veterans, according to the organizers of the group.
“We want to ensure that the performers see, hear and count, because these things do not happen for long,” said Scott Dillard, co -founder of a new non -profit organization, for Fox News Digital.
The American public often forgets that contractors make up much of the workforce on foreign bases. Estimated half of those employees in American positions during Iraq and Afghan wars They were civilian performers, not military members.
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The sand storm hits the Al Asad Air base in Iraq 2005. (Kindness Cory Archibald/Awoc)
“Some performers come out of the wire, but many of them only change bulbs, cutting mashed potatoes, cleaning toilets, no matter the case. But they are on these bases, they are in an enemy environment that attacks,” Dillard said.
Known as “hidden victims” during Iraqi war, Many were convoy drivers who carried supplies on dangerous terrain. More than 8,000 performers have died over two decades in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as an additional 7000 members of US services, according to a Number of brown university. The US government does not thoroughly report the death of the performer, and their families are often struggling to receive any fees.
“The performer’s function is a kind of invisible army, and we don’t want it,” said Cory Archibald, another co -founder and former performer. “The public deserves to know, policy creators need to know in order to make the right decisions, how integrated the performers are in everything that the army does, completely integrated into military operations, and it is necessary to understand and act.”
As well as groups of veterans who have been advocating for better care for decades after a US troops mission, Aowc hopes to educate performers who return home to mental and physical injuries and diseases related to their working resources currently available to them and advocate for American creators of policy to eat a strenuous process.
Thanks Counter Law, VA recognizes an automatic connection between 23 different conditions and a pile of combustion. But civilians, whose claims are governed by the US Ministry of Labor, must prove the connection between the same medical conditions and deployment.
Cory Archibald travels between the base in Iraq on the Osprey ship as a performer, 2008-2009. (Kindness Cory Archibald/Awoc)
Through the Law on Defense Base, the Insurers of Contracting Companies must cover the care of injuries related to work, such as cancer that arose in many of those served on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan in Close to the proximity to burn the pits.
“It’s an opponent’s procedure for performers,” Dillard said. “The insurer almost certainly denies the claim.”
For successful requirements, the performers are waiting for years to see any form of payment.
For unsuccessful requests, the performers must maintain a lawyer and wait for the procedure to be played in court.
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A survey behind the PACT Law, which has determined a direct connection with certain medical conditions and a pitch for burning medical waste, weapons and other things near military bases, focused on members of the service whose schedule are between several months and a year and a half. Little research was done on the effects that these pits had on performers, which in many cases have been taking work on foreign bases for years.
“The military implementation of explosive rules (EOD) in controlled detonations near the CBR Administrator in Al Asad, 2004, this happened several times a week. We would get a warning for radio to expect a detonation, but sometimes it still caught fear. The place of Eod was next to the burns for the burns,” Archibal said. (Cory Archibald)
The first Aowc command is to get names in the Burn Pits register to collect data and establish a direct connection between certain diseases among the performers and exposure to burned pits. Then the group will transfer this information to the policy creators and begging them to make it easier for help in care.
As the size of the military has decreased over the years, US forces are increasingly outsourcing works on civilian performers. And the performers are appropriately left out of number when the leaders of the nation are praised by reducing the trace of the US army on foreign bases.
“They say,” Let’s pull the troops. “Okay, great.
“The fact that all these jobs are left to private performers means that the public has less understanding what the cost of war is, because they do not see that they are reflected in accident information, not only death, but also injuries,” Archibald said.
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He said he first acknowledged the “invisibility” of the performer after serving in the army and then worked as a performer for six years, mostly in Afghanistan.
“I didn’t know what my rights were,” he said. “I had no idea that there was help. And the vast majority of performers have a similar lack of knowledge.”
