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Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. January 15, 1994. ISBN 978-0309075299. OCLC 1013384268. Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure (June 1, 2011). Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure ...
Expands and extends eligibility for VA health care for Veterans with toxic exposures and Veterans of the Vietnam, Gulf War, and post-9/11 eras; Adds 20+ more presumptive conditions for burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic exposures; Adds more presumptive-exposure locations for Agent Orange and radiation
Currently, veterans who provide evidence meeting VA requirements for service in Vietnam and who can medically establish that anytime after this 'presumptive exposure' they developed any medical problems on the list of presumptive diseases, may receive compensation from the VA.
The U.S. Veterans Administration lists leukemia as a “presumptive” illness for any veteran who served in Vietnam during the execution of Operation Ranch Hand (1962-1971), in which the U.S ...
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National Vietnam veterans group plans dissolution; Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame honors icons, veterans gather for Thanksgiving.
Other veterans were concerned that exposure contributed to illnesses including cancer, but many were denied compensation claims due to a "lack of evidence establishing a connection to military service." [22] More recently, the USDVA lists several forms of cancer as presumptive conditions for burn pit exposures. [4]
Dr. Jonathan Shay, in his book Achilles in Vietnam The entire military is “a moral construct,” said retired VA psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay . In his ground-breaking 1994 study of combat trauma among Vietnam veterans, Achilles in Vietnam , he writes: “The moral power of an army is so great that it can motivate men to get up out of ...