I am not a vet and don't know much about burn pits. I can understand that tons of nasty material should be destroyed but it just seems we have moved past fires at landfills here stateside but let lethal crap smolder 24/7 in a war zone. I should think there would be a big ,high heat state of the art incinerator that could be built and run by troops. From what I know really high heat destroys a lot of the nastiness. Asking why such a thing is not used. Don't say its too expensive. We have dropped a wad in Iraq and if we are going to send troops in somewhere they deserve our best effort to keep them safe. Thanks