[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES: Air Force "Vets battle VA on post-Vietnam Agent Orange claims"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vets battle VA on post-Vietnam Agent Orange claims
Say C-123 'spray birds' caused illnesses long after war


By Patricia Kime
Air Force Times
March 11, 2014

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Paul Bailey never fought in Vietnam, Laos  
or Cambodia, where many U.S. troops were exposed to the toxic  
defoliant Agent Orange.

But last July, Bailey, then 67, won a hard-fought and groundbreaking  
battle when the Veterans Affairs Department finally approved his  
claim that Agent Orange caused his prostate cancer and metastatic  
pelvic cancer.

The C-123 aircraft that were used to spray Agent Orange in the war  
zone were kept in the operational inventory until 1982, years after  
the last U.S. troops came home from Southeast Asia. Though Bailey  
never served in the combat zone, he was among the roughly 2,100  
pilots and aircrew members who flew aboard the planes in those  
postwar years.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20140311/BENEFITS06/303110036/ 
Vets-battle-VA-post-Vietnam-Agent-Orange-claims

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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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