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When U.S. troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, they frequently disposed of garbage using burn pits \u2013 huge holes where they dumped everything from household trash to medical waste, doused it in jet fuel, and set it alight.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of these pits were burning 24 hours a day, and they were located on or near the military installations where service members served,\u201d said Rebecca Patterson, a Navy veteran and a 51ÁÔÆæ alum. \u201cThey inhaled this smoke all day long, and there was a lot of bad stuff in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patterson was especially interested in one particular class of chemicals released in these burn pits: dioxins, the same cancer-causing compounds found in Agent Orange from the Vietnam War era. She made them the topic of one of her final research papers at 51ÁÔÆæ.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was my introduction to environmental exposures in the current war connected to environmental exposures in Vietnam,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cIt made me realize that I wanted to study environmental health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, as the assistant director of the Veterans Health Council<\/a>, she gets to do just that.<\/p>\n

Working for veterans<\/h3>\n

The Veterans Health Council is a program of the congressionally chartered veteran service organization Vietnam Veterans of America. The council\u2019s goal is to improve health care for veterans by educating service members, veterans, their families and health care professionals about health issues associated with military service.<\/p>\n

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Rebecca Patterson stands outside the office of U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland after a meeting discussing PFAS contamination during Patterson\u2019s High Ground Veterans Advocacy training week. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Patterson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Patterson, that means keeping up with the science as information comes out about environmental exposures service members may have faced. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine are currently studying health effects from the burn pits, and they\u2019ve recently turned their eyes toward another contaminant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re starting to look into PFAS, which is a class of chemicals that has contaminated our water supply across the country,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cSeveral chemicals were, and others remain, a component of the aqueous film-forming foam that the military uses for oil-based fires.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is also working on a grant funded by the Wounded Warrior Project that allows the Veterans Health Council to collaborate with other organizations to advocate for service members, veterans and their families affected by toxic exposures. Patterson also conducts training for health care providers so they can learn to better serve their patients with military backgrounds.<\/p>\n

The shortcomings of medical care<\/h3>\n

When most people think about the health issues affecting veterans, their minds jump to combat wounds or PTSD. But limited thinking is a mistake, Patterson warns, and health care providers who work outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs system need to be prepared.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLess than 20% of military veterans receive all of their health care at the VA. A lot of veterans do not self-identify to their non-VA providers because they don\u2019t understand the significance of the things they\u2019re exposed to; they have no idea of the health effects they can cause,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cThe fact that our health care providers are not asking if we\u2019ve ever served in the military means they don\u2019t know how to accurately diagnose and treat us, and that\u2019s a big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The effects of toxic exposures can vary. For veterans affected by Agent Orange, an herbicide used during the Vietnam War, effects can include cancer, Parkinson\u2019s, diabetes and neuropathy, among many other conditions. The effects of more recent exposures, like the burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, aren\u2019t clear yet because it may be years before long-term health consequences manifest.<\/p>\n

That presents an additional challenge: When veterans seek care or compensation from the federal government for health conditions, they often have to prove that their condition was caused by an environmental exposure they experienced during their service.<\/p>\n

A personal mission<\/h3>\n

Advocating for service members is a mission near and dear to Patterson because she\u2019s a Navy veteran from a family of Navy vets. Patterson joined up when she was 21 and trained as a Farsi linguist at the Defense Language Institute in California. She was stationed in Georgia and completed a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n

When her service ended, Patterson enrolled at 51ÁÔÆæ, where she majored in chemistry and earned certificates in forensic science and forensic toxicology. While on campus, she found herself drawn to other student veterans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Student Veterans of America chapter at 51ÁÔÆæ had just started,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cThrough those early years, we were able to get the Military and Veterans Resource Center started. Once that was built, I spent a lot of my time there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, she got involved with 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s student association as the veterans advocacy senator. She\u2019s kept up that tradition of advocacy ever since. After graduating, she took an AmeriCorps VISTA position with Student Veterans of America national headquarters for a year before attending graduate school at the University of Maryland for a master\u2019s degree in environmental health. She began working with the Veterans Health Council just prior to graduating.<\/p>\n

She credits 51ÁÔÆæ for her success.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe very welcoming veteran culture set me on the path to everything I\u2019ve done since,\u201d she said. \u201cI definitely credit 51ÁÔÆæ and the veteran services it provides for my growth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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