And this only took fifty years. Monday July 08, 2019 - 02:34 PM: Name: DAVID ALFRED BARR : Rank/Rate: HM2 … USS Mahopac ATA 196. Help ProPublica Research More Than 700 Navy Ships That Served in Vietnam. The list is based on U.S. military records, and includes Blue Water Veterans (who served on open sea ships off the shore of Vietnam).
VA Issues List of Ships with Agent Orange Exposure--The Department of Veterans Affairs Compensation and Pension (C&P) Service has initiated a program to collect data on Vietnam naval operations for the purpose of providing regional offices with information to assist with development in Haas related disability claims based on herbicide exposure from Navy Veterans. The Vietnam War Era covered by the analysis is January 1962 through May 1975.
USS Durham LKA 114 2.77mb. VA Rips 'Blue Water' Agent Orange Bill, Urges Senate to Sink It An A-4 Skyhawk launches from the USS Coral Sea in March 1965, during operations in the South China Sea. USS Coral Sea CVA 43. These are very LARGE files. USS Gray DE 1054. 65-70 (1980s) USS Coral Sea (CV/CVB/CVA-43), a Midway -class aircraft carrier, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Battle of the Coral Sea. I have not found a new list of ships that qualify but I found a note stating a ships list is being assembled. The extent and patterns of usage of Agent Orange and other herbicides in Vietnam; Laos and Cambodia by Jeanne M Stellman j. NASA photo of Mekong Delta Plume. USS Long Beach CGN9N May 68. The VA conveniently left out the I.O.M’s findings that “[the] lack of information makes it impossible to quantify exposures for Blue Water and Brown Water Navy sailors and, so far, for ground troops as well.” See the I.O.M.’s conclusions on page 93 of their report of Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure. USS Hammer DD 718. VA Adds Ships to Agent Orange Exposure List VetsHome Site Search This week the VA has added the below named ships to the already existing list for Navy and Coast Guard ships and vessels that are presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange. One additional key element the DOVA does not publicize for our veterans to be eligible for presumptive exposure to Agent Orange is ships receiving water from Vietnam as noted by the Institute of Medicine’s findings in Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure (2011) “If a ship docked and took on potable water from Vietnam, crewmembers would have been eligible for a presumption of … All Deck Logs are in PDF format. They pass Public Law 116-23 on June 20 2019 extending Agent Orange benefits out to 12 nautical miles (13.8 standard miles) from points of Vietnam. He asserts that as a result of this exposure he developed porphyria cutanea tarda. USS Mansfield DD 728 Nov. 1966. VA has released a list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships that may have been exposed to Agent Orange during military service in Vietnam.
I have not found a new list of ships that qualify but I found a note stating a ships list is being assembled. USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) The Deck Logs Project was undertaken by members of the original Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Association to document when certain ships were within Vietnam Territorial Seas defined as 12 miles from Baseline. These are ALL the USS Coral Sea deck logs available from the National Archives online. Click on the filename to download/view a decklog. Vietnam veterans need historical records to get Agent Orange benefits, but the documents are often scattered. U. S. S. ENTERPRISE (CVA(N)65. USS R. B. Anderson DD 786. USS Mason DD-852 22Dec71 2000 See USS Coral Sea CVA-43 12/22/71 USS Mispillion AO-105 05Apr72 2000 08 45.5N 106 17.5E USS Mispillion AO-105 08Apr72 0800 16 16.0N 108 31.5E Dioxin reservoirs in Southern Viet Nam – A legacy of Agent Orange a 1996 and 1999 sample collections from A So village. There is a Stay on this law until January 2020.