Blue Water Navy Widows

[Berta]

I asked a BWN widow to join here and it pays to bring this ship's list up again:

The VA AO ship's list is here:

If a Navy veteran served during the Vietnam War on one of above ships/vessels, landing craft, brown water boats, etc etc.

the VA will concede Vietnam service -incountry.

All other Blue Water Navy veterans must prove incountry Vietnam service (meaning 'Boots on ground', even for minimal period of time) (and even if just one boot was on Vietnamese soil -I had a BWN vet's claim like that many years ago).

Also http://www.bluewaternavy.org/ contains the Danang Harbor Report (anchor drop versus docking etc) by John Rossie

and also the widow who posted here:

Carol Olzanecki, can be reached by joining the BWN site and forum , as she has helped many Blue Water Widows with their AO claims.

Also she and John Rossie, President of Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Assoc. have done many SVR shows here with Jerrel Cook , and John Basser regarding the Blue Water AO issue, and those radio shows are archived under the SVR link here and can be heard via any PC media player.

[JT24usn]

NHL

No boots on ground

§ 3.313   Claims based on service in Vietnam.

(a) Service in Vietnam. Service in Vietnam includes service in the waters offshore, or service in other locations if the conditions of service involved duty or visitation in Vietnam.

(b) Service connection based on service in Vietnam. Service in Vietnam during the Vietnam Era together with the development of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma manifested subsequent to such service is sufficient to establish service connection for that disease.

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501)