By Alvin Lee Young
For nearly 4 a long time, controversy has surrounded the tactical use of herbicides in Southeast Asia via the U.S. army. Few environmental or occupational health and wellbeing concerns have obtained the sustained overseas cognizance that has been concerned with Agent Orange, the foremost tactical herbicide deployed in Southern Vietnam. With the outlet and institution of standard family members among the USA and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1995, the time has come for an intensive re-evaluation of the army use of Agent Orange and different "tactical herbicides" in Southern Vietnam, and the following activities which were happening in view that their use in Vietnam.
The usa division of safeguard has had the most important function in all army operations regarding using tactical herbicides, together with that of Agent Orange. This integrated the Department's buy, cargo and tactical use of herbicides in Vietnam, its position within the disposition of Agent Orange after Vietnam, its position in engaging in long term epidemiological investigations of the lads of Operation RANCH HAND, and its sponsorship of ecological and environmental destiny reports. This booklet used to be commissioned by means of The workplace of the Deputy less than Secretary of protection (Installations and surroundings) with the reason of supplying documentation of the data at the historical past, use, disposition and environmental destiny of Agent Orange and its linked dioxin.
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JAMA 260 (9): 1249–1254 Centers for Disease Control (1990): The Association of Selected Cancers with Service in the US Military in Vietnam: Final Report. US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta GA, USA Christrian RS (1986): Statement to the Committee on Veterans Affairs, US House of Representatives, July 18, 1986, Washington DC, USA (Available from the Alvin L. Young Agent Orange Collection, National Agricultural Library, Accession Number 05524) References 19 Coombs J (1988): The Agent Orange Phenomenon: The Report of the Australian Royal Commission.
Therefore, fighter escorts accompanied nearly every tactical herbicide spray missions, often bombing and strafing the spray target to suppress hostile fire and protect the unarmed RANCH HAND aircraft. To prevent ‘‘friendly fire’’ casualties during these missions, military procedures mandated that a Forward Air Controller (FAC) arrive at the spray target in advance of the spray planes and fighter aircraft and direct the mission. The FAC was required to abort the mission unless he could confirm that there were no friendly forces in the area.
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