By Daniel Bates Updated: 03:34 EST, 10 November 2011 Body parts belonging to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were routinely cremated and then dumped in a landfill site. For five years, between 2003 and 2008, staff at the Dover Air Force base mortuary, Delaware, disposed of parts that could not be identified or were later recovered from the battlefield. Family members were not told what happened to their relatives - and the company running the landfill site was not even informed what was being thrown away. Shocking numbers: It has been revealed that the remains of 274 soldiers were dumped in landfill in Virginia
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THIRD scandal over how the Army treats its dead
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Bodies at Arlington National Cemetery put in WRONG graves
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Military lost body parts and shipped fetal remains in cardboard boxes
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