{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Drinking Unsafe Water","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article11445.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article11445.html'\u003EU.S. Troops in Afghanistan Drinking Unsafe Water\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEvery year there are new reports of abuses being heaped on American troops in the field.  They were provided with cheap and unnecessarily heavy body armor instead of lightweight titanium layered Kevlar.  They were issued canvas-covered Humvees.  There were unconscionable delays in deploying armored Humvees and in ordering 1970\u2019s vintage MRAPs.  They have to fight with jam-prone M-4s and live on bases blanketed by toxic burn pit smoke. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nNow the method used to \"purify\" our troops\u2019 drinking (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}