2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:24:35 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: "US defense secretary visits dioxin hotspot in Vietnam"
 
US defense secretary visits dioxin hotspot in Vietnam

By Vi Vu   
VN Express (Vietnam)
October 17, 2018 

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis visited the Bien Hoa military airport, a dioxin hotspot and former American airbase, on Wednesday morning.

Mattis, accompanied by American military officials and the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, Daniel Kritenbrink, spent around 10 minutes with Vietnamese military officials, led by Major General Bui Anh Chung, Deputy Commander of Vietnam’s Air and Air Defense Force, at the airport in the southern Dong Nai Province.

The military delegations talked and surveyed the airport map in a tent, steps away from a “Danger” sign along the ditch that runs around the airport.


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For the entire article, see
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/us-defense-secretary-visits-dioxin-hotspot-in-vietnam-3825476.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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