[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, HEALTH: "Veterans: Westover [Air Force Base, MA] planes fouled with Agent Orange"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Veterans: Westover planes fouled with Agent Orange April 01, 2012,  
5:01 AM

By Jeanette DeForge
Springfield Republican (MA)
April 1, 2012
CHICOPEE - For nine years they flew in them, they fixed them and they  
treated patients in them.

Now, three decades later, veterans of the 439th Tactical Airlift Wing  
at Westover Air Reserve Base believe those airplanes are responsible  
for making them sick.

Unknown to the veterans, the C-123 Providers, which had previously  
flown in Vietnam, were contaminated with Agent Orange.

"We have crew members who are sick. We have crew members who have  
died ... We have people who aren’t even sick yet," said retired Air  
Force Major Wesley T. Carter, who served as an air medical technician  
and flight instructor and examiner with Westover’s 74th Aeromedical  
Evacuation Squadron for 20 years and flew in the C-123s from 1974 to  
1980.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/ 
westover_planes_fouled_with_ag.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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