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The Guam Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said 55-gallon drums found in a Quonset hut on Nimitz Hill are not linked to Agent Orange, but samples of the substances found in the drums ...
Three retired veterans claim to have buried 250, 55-gallon drums of Agent Orange at Camp Carroll in 1978. A report released yesterday by John D. Johnson, commanding general of the 8th U.S. Army in ...
The name came from the orange identifying stripe used on the 55-gallon drums in which it was stored. Veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange or other herbicides during service may be eligible ...
The name "Agent Orange" came from the orange identifying stripe used on the 55-gallon drums in which it was stored. The new law adds an estimated 420,000 to 560,000 veterans to those already ...
A bus and truck driver assigned to the 43rd transportation squadron, Jackson was occasionally tasked to drive a truck transporting 55-gallon drums of alleged Agent Orange. “We were told these ...
But the most common 55-gallon drum found on military bases was Agent Orange, which came in various strengths and made up about two-thirds of the herbicides spread during the war. In 1991 ...
“It came through Kelly but never used a manufacturing component,” he said of some herbicides common to Agent Orange. Military officials have previously confirmed 55-gallon drums of herbicides ...
Two more veterans have come forward, stating they witnessed and participated in spraying what they now believe to be the toxic herbicide Agent Orange ... in a 55-gallon drum, away from the ...
and Karen came to believe it was not coincidental. “In Vietnam we had a 55-gallon drum of Agent Orange and sprayed our perimeter area with it,” George said. “We had barbed wire set up and ...