diabetes Blue Water Navy Ao Vets

[Berta]

“Many people believe all Vietnam veterans injured in the war receive Health Care from VA hospitals. This is not true. Any veteran who served offshore Vietnam is denied Health Care and lost wage Compensation for any disease or disability caused by Agent Orange-dioxin.

These veterans are dying of the same conditions as troops who served on land, from the cancers, diabetes and heart diseases related to dioxin poisoning. But they are not eligible for the same VA Benefits. This is an issue the American public needs to know about so they can demand their Congressional Representatives support legislation currently before the House and Senate. We must end this travesty!

Only the American public can bring the needed changes by demanding their Senators and Representatives vote for S-1629, The Agent Orange Equity Act of 2011, which will help solve the problems of the offshore Vietnam veterans while they are still alive.

John Paul Rossie

Littleton, CO

Vietnam Naval veteran, 1969

Link to contact legislators VVA

http://capwiz.com/vva/issues/?search.x=7&search.y=9

Link to contact legislators FRA

http://www.capwiz.com/fra/issues/alert/?alertid=54045631"

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Also please take the time to join the BWN site. The Agent Orange Equity Act will pop up,lots of AO related info, and you can

participate in their forum.

http://www.bluewaternavy.org/

Also- do we have any New York State BWN vets who who be affected by this AO Equity Act?

If so reply here and I will give out contact info.

Senator Gillibrand ,our Senator here in NY, has been most instrumental (due to the work of BWNVVA and other advocates such as Commander John Wells etc ), to introduce this highly important legislation.

[carlie]

In the fall of 1972 I flew in the ship's C1A COD into DaNang on emergency leave. From there I went to Saigon and Travis. Return was from Travis to Clark/Subic. My original orders, with attached MAC Travel Authorization forms, only have stamps for Travis arrival and Subic arrival. How can I prove I was in DaNang and Saigon? I could describe what I saw there, but somehow I don't think that's enough evidence.

mez,

Welcome.

It is always best to start a new topic with your questions into the Forum it relates to.

You have posted in the right Forum but please repost this as a New Topic.

Thanks - Admin

[SP4RVN1971]

Carlie, Question back in the Vietnam war, when a ship came into dock, where did they get there fresh water? Not knowing if they produce their own.

Where did we on the base get our's?

Edited January 8, 2012 by SP4RVN1971

[jbasser]

Ships at sea use what is called an evaporator. Salt water is piped to it, It heats the water up and the evaporated steam relocates into a fresh water holding tank.

The technology has been around for many years as evident in the old moonshine stills in the hills..

Basser

[Chuck75]

Depending on the exact location in Vietnam (and elsewhere) - - Ships took on fresh water from "the pier" or from tank trucks and barges, or even from other vessels.

In some locations, the water was too polluted to cycle through the ship's evaporators and drinking water systems.

A ship might shut down the evaporators until it returned to "clean" seawater.

River water, as an example, was pumped into a convenient void, left to have the muck settle out, then pumped through a filter before it reached the evaporator system.

Destroyers were steam turbine powered, had large evaporators, and used quite a bit of distilled water to go from place to place.

Thats why a relatively small number were actually used in "inland waters". The riverwater could clog the evaporators to the point that they had to be disassembled

and cleaned out, tube by tube. (Usually a major shipyard job)

Carlie, Question back in the Vietnam war, when a ship came into dock, where did they get there fresh water? Not knowing if they produce their own.

Where did we on the base get our's?

[jbasser]

Depending on the exact location in Vietnam (and elsewhere) - - Ships took on fresh water from "the pier" or from tank trucks and barges, or even from other vessels.

In some locations, the water was too polluted to cycle through the ship's evaporators and drinking water systems.

A ship might shut down the evaporators until it returned to "clean" seawater.

River water, as an example, was pumped into a convenient void, left to have the muck settle out, then pumped through a filter before it reached the evaporator system.

Destroyers were steam turbine powered, had large evaporators, and used quite a bit of distilled water to go from place to place.

Thats why a relatively small number were actually used in "inland waters". The riverwater could clog the evaporators to the point that they had to be disassembled

and cleaned out, tube by tube. (Usually a major shipyard job)

This discussion brings back some memories.

Basser

[SP4RVN1971]

If they got water from the land from tanker, from pumping station they were on the ground just like us. goodnight!