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The cremated remains of at least partial, 274 U.S. soldiers were dumped in a landfill in Virginia, according to government records, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

Air Force remains high 274 soldiers in a landfill
The cremated remains of at least partial, 274 U.S. soldiers were dumped in a landfill in Virginia, according to government records, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
Air Force officials said the dumping has been hidden from families who had given permission for the rest to be disposed of in a respectful and dignified, the newspaper said.
Not intended to inform families, officials in the newspaper.
The new information reveals that the practice presented by the Washington Post in November, spread until it stopped in 2008, the newspaper reported.
Last month, Pentagon officials and Air Force to find out how many said remains were sent to King George County, Virginia, landfills must comb through the records of more than 6300 soldiers.
The Air Force morgue body parts lost war dead

“It would take a great effort and time to remember the folders and individual research,” said Jo Ann Rooney, acting undersecretary for personnel at the Pentagon, in a November 22 letter to Representative Rush Holt (New Jersey Rep. ), which pressured the Pentagon to get information on the subject on behalf of one of its components, the newspaper said.


Holt reacted angrily to the news, the newspaper reported.
“What?” Said the Post. ”We spent millions of dollars, tens of millions of people find no trace of the dead soldiers, and are concerned about a” massive “effort to come back and drag the files and how many soldiers have been violated in this way?”
“They just do not want to ask questions or very difficult,” the newspaper said.
According to Army records gave the Post Office, between 2003 and 2008, fragments of 274 976 people were incinerated, burned and thrown into landfills. An even more in 1762, which could not be a DNA test because of the damage caused by the explosions, were collected from the battlefield and thrown in a similar way, the Air Force, the newspaper said.
The widow of an Army sergeant killed in Iraq, told the newspaper he was furious when a morgue told how some of the remains of her husband was dumped in the landfill.
“They knew they were doing something disgusting, and they did everything possible to prevent us,” said Gari-Lynn Smith told the newspaper. She had been pressuring the military to obtain information on subject for four years – since I received a report on the autopsy of her husband and learned that some of the remains had been placed in the coffin for burial, according to the Post .