The dioxin TCDD clean-up efforts at former military bases and other Vietnam hotspots are ongoing. However, the lesser-told story was the environmental and human health impacts on the communities and chemical plant workers who manufactured Agent Orange and other herbicides that became contaminated ...
Agent Orange was a powerful herbicide used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The U.S. program, codenamed Operation Ranch Hand, sprayed more than 20 million gallons of various herbicides over Vietnam...
Agent Orange, a mixture of the chlorophenoxy herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, was extensively used by US military during Vietnam War in order to destroy forest and other vegetation from the premises of US bases. About 19 million gallons were used on ∼3.6 million acres of land in Viet...
The various herbicides used during Operation Ranch Hand were referred to by the colored marks on the 55-gallon drums in which the chemicals were shipped and stored. In addition to Agent Orange, the U.S. military used herbicides named Agent Pink, Agent Green, Agent Purple, Agent White and Ag...
The death toll from the Vietnam War continues to rise from the side effects of Agent Orange. The toxic herbicide was used to clear Southeast Asian jungles of ...
Agent Orange Negative Effects On The Environment The numbers also did not include the millions of North and South Vietnamese and Viet Cong armed forces members who were exposed to spraying during and after their time of military service. The numbers did not include U.S. Navy veterans who serv...
U.S. Army Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese agricultural land. During the Vietnam War, the United States military sprayed over twenty million gallons of herbicide Agent Orange on the trees and vegetation in Vietnam. The idea was to remove the forest cover that the enemy co...
Every single military member exposed to Agent Orange should be declared as 100% disabled and provided with compensation to the date of their exposures. With all the money the United States government wastes on any given day, why not fork over some cash to those who fought in one of those ...
The use of the Agent Orange family of herbicides (the so-called “rainbow herbicides”) left nearly a quarter of Vietnam defoliated, and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), an impurity in the Agent Orange mixture and a suspected carcinogen, has left a devastating long-term impact...
The Agent Orange that US Army left to S Korea US Military Veterans Claim To Have Buried Dangerous Agent Orange Chemical On Camp Carroll "I often receives inquiries from veterans who served in Korea for advice in regards to agent orange claims. For those that don’t know agent orange was spr...