Kansas veteran unimpressed with senator's 'lame' flip on burn pits legislation [View all]

Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector
July 31, 2022

LAWRENCE — Brooklynne Mosley says U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall should stop using veterans as political props if he isn’t willing to support federal legislation providing health care coverage for the toxins they were exposed to during deployments. Marshall, a Kansas Republican, last week flipped his position on the bill to block it from moving forward in the Senate. The procedural move was widely criticized by veterans and their advocates as a political stunt.

“I don’t know if it’s retaliation or a political game, but whatever it is, it’s lame,” Mosley said. “And I think that whatever is happening should not be happening on the backs of veterans.”

Mosley is a Kansas City, Missouri, native and Lawrence resident who was deployed eight times as a member of the Air Force from 2002 to 2013. She said she flew 192 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, serving as a boom operator on a KC-10 refueling aircraft. She now works for a digital media firm that mostly works with Democrats.

Mosley said she inhaled jet fuel every day during her deployments. She provided medical records to Kansas Reflector that document her exposure to “various airborne constituents,” windblown dust, industrial pollution and sand. The military’s assessment of her occupational risks references exposure to chemicals, radiation from radar systems, and hazardous waste sites.

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