Subject: I SPRAYED AGENT ORANGE, AGENT WHITE AND OTHER HERBICIDES ON GUAM
Senator McCain, Congressman Higgins, Senator Cathy Young,
When will Congress stop high level officials in the Defense Department and the government from lying to them about the use of Agent Orange, Agent White and other herbicides on Guam, Okinawa and other areas besides Vietnam during the Vietnam War ?
I was stationed on Guam from 1968 through 1978 and personally prepared, mixed and sprayed these herbicides with a 750 gallon tank trailer behind a five ton tractor truck while assigned to the Fuels Division of the Supply Squadron at Anderson AFB, Guam. The spraying included the perimeter security fences at all of the fuel tank farms, flight line areas, hydrant pump houses, fuel valve pits and etc . It also included the off base fuels facilities for the Air Force and the Cross Country Pipeline which I was in charge of for many years.
I have attached the Letter from the Under Secretary of Defense which denied the use of these chemicals on Guam and also have attached my Airmen's Performance Reports which you can clearly see I performed their vegetation control program which as I mentioned above was mixing and spraying these herbicides.
Please once and for all clear up this obvious mistake and oversight. Give our nation's veterans the service connection for these dispicable diseases which they have incurred while in the military service and honor them with your word to stop this injustice NOW.
i will have to send the Airman's performance reports one page at a time as the file i made is far too large to send. I can send by fax to any number you would like it sent to of the documents I have described and the denials from the VA over the years when there was clearly no call for the denial. I am still being denied service connection for the herbicide exposure on Guam and the correct dating of my claim for the spinal disease first diagnosed in feb 1988.
I firmly believe without a doubt without any mental reservation that the evidence in this email is clearly evidence to support the fact that Agent orange, Agent white and other herbicides were used on Guam and I am here to tell you I was there and I was preparing, mixing and spraying the stuff that is killing me. I have fought the VA for over twenty years and have been denied at every opportunity by the VA for as they put it lack of evidence. I believe that every man and woman that have put on the uniform of our country deserve to be treated far differently than I was treated. I have been spit on at San Francisco Airport by the orange robed hairy chrisna, i have been yelled at by flower children swearing at me and calling me baby killer, i have been passed by on the highway in unifrom carrying my duffel bag trying to get home just for a day as it was worth it to me to see home again just one more time, I must tell you that I am proud of what it means to be a veteran of our armed forces fighting for the freedom of all who live here and in the world. I just expected a little thank you for over twenty years of honorable and decorated service. I just thought that Congress should expect the VA to honor the promises made in writing to me during all of those hard times. I just thought just for once that my country would not turn it's back on me. I was so disappointed when Congress took my GI Bill from me while I was still on active duty and then made me ineligible for the new Montgomery GI Bill all because I was one of the old timers from the Vietnam war era and they just snatched up my only future from me especially after being denied employment by the US postal service in buffalo ny because of my spinal disease that the VA denied me for all the way to 2007, twenty years later and then only go back three years instead of back to the day I was denied employement. unemployable as they put it now. Wow .....no job, no educational benefits, no no no.....everywhere i turned....even denied me medical care......wow.....and i had all this disease in me. Wow....what did I do to deserve that kind of treatment?
Another Case Confirms AO On Guam
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 4:36 pm
Press Release: si Debbie Quinata
"The decision issued by the Department of Veterans on April 16 was the fourth case won by veterans who were deployed to Guam in the 1960s. All four cases confirmed dioxin contamination at Anderson AFB." See "Brown Death" on Guam.
FINDINGS OF FACT
2. Diabetes mellitus is related to the veteran's active service.
CONCLUSION OF LAW
Diabetes mellitus was incurred in service. 38 U.S.C.A. §§ 1110, 5102, 5103, 5103A (West 2002); 38 C.F.R. §§ 3.159, 3.303 (2004).
REASONS AND BASES FOR FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION
Analysis of Claim
[during] his personal hearing, the veteran alleged that he developed diabetes mellitus as a result of his exposure to herbicide agents while serving on active duty in Guam. His military occupational duties as an aircraft maintenance specialist allegedly required him to work in an air field, the perimeter of which was continuously brown due to herbicide spraying every three months. The veteran also alleges that he recalls seeing storage barrels at the edge of the base, which he now knows housed herbicides. Following discharge, Anderson Air Force base in Guam, where the veteran was stationed, underwent an environmental study, which showed a significant amount of dioxin contamination in the soil and prompted the federal government to order a clean up of the site.
Service connection may be granted for disability resulting from disease or injury incurred in or aggravated by service. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1110 (West 2002); 38 C.F.R. § 3.303 (2004). Service connection may also be granted for any disease diagnosed after discharge when all of the evidence, including that pertinent to service, establishes that the disease was incurred in service. 38 C.F.R. § 3.303(d).
[For] the showing of chronic disease in service there is required a combination of manifestations sufficient to identify the disease entity, and sufficient observation to establish chronicity at the time,
[When] the fact of chronicity in service is not adequately supported, then a showing of continuity after discharge is required to support the claim. 38 C.F.R. § 3.303(b).
In some circumstances, a disease associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents will be presumed to have been incurred in service even though there is no evidence of that disease during the period of service at issue. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1116(a) (West 2002); 38 C.F.R. §§ 3.307(a)(6), 3.309(e) (2004).
For the complete excerpt, please click here regarding "service-connection."
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Congressman Bob Filner on Agent Orange exposure on Guam.rtf OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TO THE HONORABLE LANE EVANS.pdfMessages in this topic () Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic
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Subject: I SPRAYED AGENT ORANGE, AGENT WHITE AND OTHER HERBICIDES ON GUAM
Senator McCain, Congressman Higgins, Senator Cathy Young,
When will Congress stop high level officials in the Defense Department and the government from lying to them about the use of Agent Orange, Agent White and other herbicides on Guam, Okinawa and other areas besides Vietnam during the Vietnam War ?
I was stationed on Guam from 1968 through 1978 and personally prepared, mixed and sprayed these herbicides with a 750 gallon tank trailer behind a five ton tractor truck while assigned to the Fuels Division of the Supply Squadron at Anderson AFB, Guam. The spraying included the perimeter security fences at all of the fuel tank farms, flight line areas, hydrant pump houses, fuel valve pits and etc . It also included the off base fuels facilities for the Air Force and the Cross Country Pipeline which I was in charge of for many years.
I have attached the Letter from the Under Secretary of Defense which denied the use of these chemicals on Guam and also have attached my Airmen's Performance Reports which you can clearly see I performed their vegetation control program which as I mentioned above was mixing and spraying these herbicides.
Please once and for all clear up this obvious mistake and oversight. Give our nation's veterans the service connection for these dispicable diseases which they have incurred while in the military service and honor them with your word to stop this injustice NOW.
i will have to send the Airman's performance reports one page at a time as the file i made is far too large to send. I can send by fax to any number you would like it sent to of the documents I have described and the denials from the VA over the years when there was clearly no call for the denial. I am still being denied service connection for the herbicide exposure on Guam and the correct dating of my claim for the spinal disease first diagnosed in feb 1988.
I firmly believe without a doubt without any mental reservation that the evidence in this email is clearly evidence to support the fact that Agent orange, Agent white and other herbicides were used on Guam and I am here to tell you I was there and I was preparing, mixing and spraying the stuff that is killing me. I have fought the VA for over twenty years and have been denied at every opportunity by the VA for as they put it lack of evidence. I believe that every man and woman that have put on the uniform of our country deserve to be treated far differently than I was treated. I have been spit on at San Francisco Airport by the orange robed hairy chrisna, i have been yelled at by flower children swearing at me and calling me baby killer, i have been passed by on the highway in unifrom carrying my duffel bag trying to get home just for a day as it was worth it to me to see home again just one more time, I must tell you that I am proud of what it means to be a veteran of our armed forces fighting for the freedom of all who live here and in the world. I just expected a little thank you for over twenty years of honorable and decorated service. I just thought that Congress should expect the VA to honor the promises made in writing to me during all of those hard times. I just thought just for once that my country would not turn it's back on me. I was so disappointed when Congress took my GI Bill from me while I was still on active duty and then made me ineligible for the new Montgomery GI Bill all because I was one of the old timers from the Vietnam war era and they just snatched up my only future from me especially after being denied employment by the US postal service in buffalo ny because of my spinal disease that the VA denied me for all the way to 2007, twenty years later and then only go back three years instead of back to the day I was denied employement. unemployable as they put it now. Wow .....no job, no educational benefits, no no no.....everywhere i turned....even denied me medical care......wow.....and i had all this disease in me. Wow....what did I do to deserve that kind of treatment?
Another Case Confirms AO On Guam
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 4:36 pm
Press Release: si Debbie Quinata
"The decision issued by the Department of Veterans on April 16 was the fourth case won by veterans who were deployed to Guam in the 1960s. All four cases confirmed dioxin contamination at Anderson AFB." See "Brown Death" on Guam.
FINDINGS OF FACT
2. Diabetes mellitus is related to the veteran's active service.
CONCLUSION OF LAW
Diabetes mellitus was incurred in service. 38 U.S.C.A. §§ 1110, 5102, 5103, 5103A (West 2002); 38 C.F.R. §§ 3.159, 3.303 (2004).
REASONS AND BASES FOR FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION
Analysis of Claim
[during] his personal hearing, the veteran alleged that he developed diabetes mellitus as a result of his exposure to herbicide agents while serving on active duty in Guam. His military occupational duties as an aircraft maintenance specialist allegedly required him to work in an air field, the perimeter of which was continuously brown due to herbicide spraying every three months. The veteran also alleges that he recalls seeing storage barrels at the edge of the base, which he now knows housed herbicides. Following discharge, Anderson Air Force base in Guam, where the veteran was stationed, underwent an environmental study, which showed a significant amount of dioxin contamination in the soil and prompted the federal government to order a clean up of the site.
Service connection may be granted for disability resulting from disease or injury incurred in or aggravated by service. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1110 (West 2002); 38 C.F.R. § 3.303 (2004). Service connection may also be granted for any disease diagnosed after discharge when all of the evidence, including that pertinent to service, establishes that the disease was incurred in service. 38 C.F.R. § 3.303(d).
[For] the showing of chronic disease in service there is required a combination of manifestations sufficient to identify the disease entity, and sufficient observation to establish chronicity at the time,
[When] the fact of chronicity in service is not adequately supported, then a showing of continuity after discharge is required to support the claim. 38 C.F.R. § 3.303(b).
In some circumstances, a disease associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents will be presumed to have been incurred in service even though there is no evidence of that disease during the period of service at issue. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1116(a) (West 2002); 38 C.F.R. §§ 3.307(a)(6), 3.309(e) (2004).
For the complete excerpt, please click here regarding "service-connection."
LeRoy G. Foster
100 % Service Connected Disabled
Life member of the DAV of New York State
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scan0002.jpg2 of 2 File(s)
Congressman Bob Filner on Agent Orange exposure on Guam.rtf OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TO THE HONORABLE LANE EVANS.pdfMessages in this topic () Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic
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