Ao Unit List

[Berta]

This is the initial Unit list from NVLSP- 2003:

http://www.nvlsp.org/Information/ArticleLi...O-aoinkorea.htm

Since then in the VBM 2006 they have added:

Division Reaction Force (4-7 Cavalry -CAC Counter Agent Company)

Also Field Artillery Signal and Engineers supplied as support personnel.

Also the VBM cites another AO Korean vet-awarded - NHL due to AO -BVA Decision 98-17647.

As long as the vet's unit and his actual duties put him into close proximity to the "swath" which I described here before neart the DMZ-

where the actual spraying was done-within the spraying dates---

and the vet can prove this- the vet-with presumptive AO disability-can succeed on an AO comp claim.

Years ago a few vets here chastised me in emails etc for saying that AO has compromised the seas of the Pacific where the 7th Fleet was.

Their position was that I was nuts.

Agent Orange is the most important issue of VA claims to me (of they all are but this issue is where my expertise lies)and it was for well over a decade before I even realised the personal damage it had done to my husband.He never knew he was disabled by AO.

Jonathan Haas proved I was correct and not some half baked nut:

"Haas testified that during his tour aboard the U.S.S. Mount Katmai, he often saw large clouds of chemicals being dropped by aircraft over the forests. He further stated: "[T]hese large clouds would drift out over the water because of the prevailing offshore winds, and they would engulf ships, my ship in particular. Now you could see the chemicals, you could taste them, smell them, and they landed on your skin."

Haas is the most important CAVC case I have seen in years and

any veteran who can prove exposure to AO and has a AO disability should file a claim-wherever they were exposed to it.

Oddly enough the science course I am taking, taught by a USAF Meteorologist- certainly reveals how any heribicide in the quantity of AO that was used- could have effects to anything east of it--due to weather systems.

Congressman Lane Evans- a Congressman and Marine-who always responded to my mail- saw all of his work rectified too- when he insisted the Gov produce AO info as to Okinawa and I already posted here before the first Okinawa AO vet win at the BVA.

Any veteran east of Vietnam in the China Sea -on Guam,on Okinawa,in Linebacker, Arc Light, and even Dixie Station etc etc- might well have been exposed to Agent Orange.

Edited April 15, 2007 by Berta