There was discussion of holding an Agent Orange Awareness event at Vietnam Veterans Park in October ... “We were told it was to kill the jungle, but we didn’t know it would affect us later ...

In 1991, Congress passed the Agent Orange Act, which requires the VA to assume all veterans who “served in the Republic of Vietnam” from 1962 to 1975 were exposed to Agent Orange. A few months later, ...

A plane spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam The Americans used chemical ... This was used to clear foliage in the jungle which was the natural hiding place for the Vietcong. They also wanted ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains a list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships associated with military service in Vietnam and possible exposure to Agent Orange based on military records.

American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up ... on suspected Vietcong strongholds, and Agent Orange, an ultra-strong defoliant, was used to destroy the jungle cover. Helicopters were used to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The U.S. Veterans Administration must honor the terms of a 1991 settlement and pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for ...