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Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act

I am asking that you contact your local members of Congress (Both Sides) and ask them support the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act. A similar bill was in the House of Representatives last year and was stuck in with over 250 co-sponsors and was not brought to the floor for a...

Dick Phenneger never imagined that scrap metal would rise to the top of the options pile to help fund a study of veterans and their families affected by the Agent Orange herbicide. Phenneger’s local nonprofit, Veteran Services Transparency (VST), has launched the Orange...

Veteran faces battles with VA Clinic

Norman Laws of Branson served in Vietnam. Following his years overseas, he was stationed at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois in 1973, where he said he was exposed to multiple chemicals, including Agent Orange. The base has since closed, and the state of Illinois has...

VSO seeing more Agent Orange cases

Now, several decades later, veterans are arriving at the Hubbard County Veteran Service Office with questions about AO, Greg Remus told commissioners this week. In the third quarter of 2014, he saw 681 Vietnam vets, up from last year’s 493 for the same period. About two per...

The 40-year war AGENT ORANGE CASUALTIES KEEP MOUNTING

November 13, 2014

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But fate put Galinac — and thousands of others — in the path of a killer as deadly but far more stealthy than their North Vietnamese foe. And more than 40 years later, the strategy the U.S. military deployed to decimate that jungle has leveled a lethal legacy. Galinac is among...

AGENT ORANGE/DIOXIN COMMITTEE REPORT: Operation Flyswatter

Malathion is the name of an organophosphate insecticide used in Vietnam to combat mosquitoes. Organophosphates were first developed in the late 1930s by Nazi Germany as chemical warfare agents (nerve gas). VX nerve gas and Sarin gas are well-known examples. Organophosphates...

Agent Orange tested secretly in Panama

The US military tested Agent Orange and other herbicides by secretly spraying them in Panama at the height of the Vietnam War, according to the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Members of the U.S. military, as well as civilians, may have been exposed to the extremely toxic chemical. Though...

Agent Orange Tested in Panama in the 1960’s and 70’s

http://www.panna.org/resources/gpc/gpc_199908.09.2.19.dv.html This article is from the Global Pesticide Campaigner (Volume 09, Number 2), August 1999. The complete issue is available. More about the Global Pesticide Campaigner. News Note: Agent Orange in Panama The Dallas Morning...

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): Johnston Atoll Kalama Atoll

October 14, 2013

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On 31 July 2001 the U.S. Army Chemical Activity Pacific retired its colors on Johnston Island. The unit’s deactivation marked an end to 30 years of storing and handling chemical weapons stockpiles, and participating in the destruction of those weapons since 1990. Johnston...

Agent Orange Okinawa: Where did Agent Orange stop?

Having spent much of my childhood living on air force bases around the U.S., I’m wondering whether the Pentagon allowed even more widespread use of this “defoliant.” It has been reported here in the U.S. that some veterans claim to have been exposed to Agent...

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Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act

Operation Orange Heart: Scrap metal recycling program to raise funds for Agent Orange study

Veteran faces battles with VA Clinic

VSO seeing more Agent Orange cases

The 40-year war AGENT ORANGE CASUALTIES KEEP MOUNTING

AGENT ORANGE/DIOXIN COMMITTEE REPORT: Operation Flyswatter

Agent Orange tested secretly in Panama

Agent Orange Tested in Panama in the 1960’s and 70’s

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): Johnston Atoll Kalama Atoll

Agent Orange Okinawa: Where did Agent Orange stop?

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