In a complaint to the Air Force inspector general, a retired officer alleges health officials have known since at least 1994 of Agent Orange contamination aboard C-123 aircraft flown by reserve squadrons for a decade after the Vietnam War, and failed to warn of the health risks. After the Air Force stopped using UC-123K Provider aircraft to spray herbicide on the jungles of Vietnam, some of those aircraft, their spray tanks removed, were reassigned in 1972 at three stateside bases.
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Legion is standing by its call for benefits to be awarded to Blue Water Navy veterans of the Vietnam War who are suffering health problems associated with exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange. The Legion's reaffirmation of its position comes in the wake of a new report on the issue from the private, nonprofit Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. As it stands, health-care benefit and compensation claims against Agent Orange exposure are recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from certain Vietnam War veterans who served "in the Republic of Vietnam" on the ground or in boats cruising interior waterways, but not from those stationed on board ships offshore or who flew aircraft...
To the Editor: When I served as an Army medic in Vietnam, I often saw a 19-year- old solider whose job was to spray an herbicide called Agent Orange on anything green inside my base.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- It's been 50 years since the U.S. military sprayed Agent Orange over Vietnam, but its effects are still felt today, said Charles Bailey, who is leading an effort to clean up the chemical's legacy. Bailey, 66, and Son Michael Pham -- who left Vietnam as a refugee the day the war ended -- spoke to the Rotary Club of Yakima on Thursday at the Yakima Convention Center about the lingering impacts of the chemical in hopes of garnering cleanup support.
Dear Sgt. Shaft, I have a question about Agent Orange. My last recollection is that when asked, the National Academy of Sciences investigated Vietnam veterans' complaints and did not find a correlation between Agent Orange and their conditions. However, the vets complained so much that Congress awarded them benefits even though there was no medical evidence of cause and effect.
AFTER A YEAR of research and reporting about the legacy of Agent Orange, I feel certain of one thing: We don't yet know the full extent of dioxin's harm. It appears to be a story with no end in sight. On Sunday, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland ran a special report titled "Unfinished Business" (cleveland.com/agentorange) . It detailed how the U.S. military sprayed millions of gallons of the herbicide containing dioxin to defoliate the triple-canopy jungles that hid Ho Chi Minh's northern forces during the Vietnam War.
A federal appeals court has delivered a stinging defeat to 'Blue Water' sailors and Coast Guard veterans of the Vietnam War who have been fighting for disability compensation from illnesses they contend resulted from shipboard exposure to deadly herbicides including Agent Orange. The a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled 2-1 on May 8 that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) acted lawfully and reasonably in 2002 when it cut off Agent Orange-related disability payments and began to deny new claims from veterans who served on ships off the coast of Vietnam but never actually "set foot" in country.
Tommy Young, co-owner of Young Farm in Tuckerman, Ark., smiles when he hears himself compared to the U.S. Air Force dropping millions of pounds of toxic chemicals on the landscape of Vietnam. I laugh at the rhetoric," he said. "But we're not taking out C- 130s and dumping chemicals. We're using GPS-guided spray rigs that won't even spray a 2-inch overlap. We take every precaution not to double-dip," he said.
The cost of war -- on veterans' health and taxpayer wallets -- will loom a little larger in the new year when the Department of Veterans Affairs issues a final rule to claim adjudicators to presume three more diseases of Vietnam veterans, including heart disease, were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The rule, expected to be published soon, will make almost any veteran who set foot in Vietnam, and is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, B cell leukemia or ischemic heart disease (known also as coronary artery disease), eligible for disability compensation and VA medical care. The exception would be if credible evidence surfaces of a non-service cause for the ailment.
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