[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, HEALTH: "Spray Plane" vets fight for Agent Orange benefits

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Westover Vets Fight For Agent Orange Benefits

By Lisa Chedekel
New Haven Independent (CT)
September 7, 2011

In the years since they flew together out of Westover Air Force Base  
in Massachusetts in the post-Vietnam War era, Wes Carter and Paul  
Bailey have stayed in close touch, swapping information about  
families, jobs, and their former crewmates in the 74th Aeromedical  
Evacuation Squadron.

This year, the conversation took a strange turn: Bailey, who lives in  
New Hampshire, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in February. Two  
months later, Carter, a former Massachusetts resident who now lives  
in Oregon, got the same diagnosis.

Curious about the coincidence, the two men began checking around with  
members of their Air Force Reserve squadron – particularly those who  
had flown the C-123 Provider, a plane that was used to spray Agent  
Orange during the Vietnam War and then was reassigned to domestic  
missions at Westover and two other U.S. bases.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/health/entry/ 
westover_vets_fight_for_agent_orange_benefits/id_39708

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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