The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the results of two research studies that Veterans Affairs officials say are needed to determine whether new health conditions should be added to the list of Agent Orange-connected diseases. A VA...
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Lawmakers make final push to expand care for thousands more veterans sick from Agent Orange
Photo credit Huey Defoliation National Archives: 111-CC-59948, originally found in Box 1 Folder 9 of Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: Agent Orange Subject Files. More than 100 more members of Congress are pushing their colleagues...
Calling out the U.S. military for ‘Poisoning the Pacific’
It’s been almost 10 years since Welsh investigative journalist Jon Mitchell first broke the news in The Japan Times about the on Okinawa. Mitchell says that discovery was only the beginning: “My initial research snowballed into a 10 year...
VA Says It Has Already Awarded More Than Half a Billion in ‘Blue Water Navy’ Claims
Nearly half of the more than 69,000 claims for "Blue Water Navy" Agent Orange benefits have been processed, and about 71% of those have thus far been approved for more than $664 million in retroactive benefits, the Department of Veterans...
VA is expected to start processing Blue Water Navy claims Jan. 1. Here’s what to know
After a federal court declined to lift a delay on Blue Water Navy disability claims imposed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, claims processing is expected to begin Jan. 1, 2020. Veterans can file their claims now, though, VA told...
Vietnam, US commence dioxin remediation at Bien Hoa airbase
Experts measure dioxin contamination at Bien Hoa Airport in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam, to start a cleanup project, December 5, 2019. Vietnam's Ministry of National Defense released 37 hectares at Bien Hoa Airport to the United...