Tennessee delegation leads effort to help sick K2 veterans

With one Afghanistan War veteran dying every 25 days, several senators have recently taken an interest in the 10,000 service members who deployed to a deeply contaminated Uzbek air base called “K2” that served as a staging ground for the invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11.

“We know that K2 was the sight of open burn pits and also of depleted uranium,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn told the Washington Examiner. The Tennessee Republican, elected to the Senate in 2018 after 16 years in the House, noted her many Fort Campbell veteran staff members brought the issue to her attention.