Hundreds of troops KIA were dumped in landfills between 2003-2008

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At least 274 deceased veterans had their remains desecrated and dumped into landfills with common trash. Another 1700 unidentified met the same fate.

The Air Force tried to hide it, and the Pentagon justified it.

Families were not informed.

Dead Americans are just a statistic to them.



Report: Air Force dumped remains of 274 troops in landfill

According to records the military gave The Post, between 2003 and 2008, 976 fragments from 274 personnel were cremated, incinerated and dumped in the landfill. An additional 1,762 remains, which could not be DNA tested because of damage from explosions, were gathered from the battlefield and dumped in a similar manner, the Air Force told the newspaper.

And then the Pentagon refused to even search their records to identify the bodies for the families of the deceased.

"It would require a massive effort and time to recall records and research individually," Jo Ann Rooney, the Pentagon's acting undersecretary for personnel, said in a Nov. 22 letter to Rep. Rush Holt (Dem.-N.J.), who has pressured the Pentagon for information on the issue on behalf of one of his constituents, according to the newspaper.

Holt reacted angrily to the news, the newspaper reported.
"What the hell?" he told the Post. "We spent millions, tens of millions, to find any trace of soldiers killed, and they're concerned about a 'massive' effort to go back and pull out the files and find out how many soldiers were disrespected this way?"

"They just don't want to ask questions or look very hard," he added, according to the newspaper.

 

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