Agent Orange Outside Vietnam

[jamescripps2]

[Pete53]

Wow I have the same problems and I served at Ft Benning and Germany

[SeattleShay]

A very large number of veterans have those same problems.

A helicopter pilot swore that he sprayed AO at Fort McClellan, and traces were found by the EPA, but the VA still denies any claims.

Can u imagine how many veterans who would have AO claims, if the VA and the DOD were, to be truthful??????

[Jayg]

A very large number of veterans have those same problems.

A helicopter pilot swore that he sprayed AO at Fort McClellan, and traces were found by the EPA, but the VA still denies any claims.

Can u imagine how many veterans who would have AO claims, if the VA and the DOD were, to be truthful??????

Dang! My clunky old dial up doesn't do video worth a darn! Is there something like a transcript to this anywhere???

My VSO says I have all the symptoms (I admit not being sure whatall that is in detail) and that If I had set so much as one foot in country he'd have filed me for it. I did serve beginning in '74. Wasn't the army still using the stuff?

Said VSO has a fellow worked the golf course in Hawaii and claims they used the stuff on in the borders of it. (purely hearsay mind)

And like another fellow I too served in Germany but a little later, 77-81.

[Testvet]

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=7923469

This is the link where you can read it I knew I saw it the other day in the Augusta paper, it happened at Fort Gordon

[jamescripps2]

I was also stationed in Germany, Heidelberg, 1969--1970

This list in detail! Herbicide use outside Vietnam. Pages 49 & 50 pertain to Fort Gordon and my exposure. I was there and worked in the rear areas as a game warden. I also have more documentation of other AO use and testing at Fort Gordon.

http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/reading_room/T...lHerbicides.pdf

jackpot29@msn.com ----This is the email address for Irish, she has drawn her military benefits as due to AO exposure at Fort McClellan for many years.

More on McClellan and my story.

http://www.woundedtimes.blogspot.com/

[jamescripps2]

Report

REPORT TO TO SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

ON THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS

AND EXPOSURE TO AGENT ORANGE

CLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL STATUS (1)

As Reported by Special Assistant

Admiral E.R. Zumwalt, Jr.

May 5, 1990

NOT FOR PUBLICATION AND

RELEASE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC

1. INTRODUCTION

On October 6, 1989 I was appointed as special assistant to Secretary Derwinski of the Department of Veterans Affairs to assist the Secretary in determining whether it is at least as likely as not that there is a statistical association between exposure to Agent Orange and a specific adverse health effect.

Although the military dispensed Agent Orange in concentrations 6 to 25 times the manufacturers suggested rate, "at that time the Department of Defense (DOD) did not consider herbicide orange toxic or dangerous to humans and took few precautions to prevent exposure to it." Yet, evidence readily suggests that at the time of its use experts knew that Agent Orange was harmful to military personnel.5

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When we (military scientists) initiated the herbicide program in the 1960s, we were aware of the potential for damage due to dioxin contamination in the herbicide. We were even aware that the military6 formulation had a higher dioxin concentration than the civilian version due to the lower cost and speed of manufacture. However, because the material was to be used on the enemy, none of us were overly concerned. We never considered a scenario in which. our own personnel would become contaminated with the herbicide. And, if we had, we would have expected our own government to give assistance to veterans so contaminated.