Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended, President Trump’s gutting of foreign aid has halted American efforts to address a ...

Sen. Danny Burgess has filed legislation that would honor victims of Agent Orange, an herbicide used in the Vietnam War that ...

The Vietnam War is colored in ... exposing the enemy taking cover in the jungle. It also killed their food supply. EARLIER ...

Veterans fight to have Parkinson’s declared service connected to Agent Orange U.S. Military Veterans With Parkinson’s Disease, an organization of about 150 members, is saying the ...

A plane spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam The Americans used chemical ... This was used to clear foliage in the jungle which was the natural hiding place for the Vietcong. They also wanted ...

In 1991, Congress passed the Agent Orange Act, which requires the VA to assume all veterans who “served in the Republic of Vietnam” from 1962 to 1975 were exposed to Agent Orange. A few months later, ...

American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up ... on suspected Vietcong strongholds, and Agent Orange, an ultra-strong defoliant, was used to destroy the jungle cover. Helicopters were used to ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains a list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships associated with military service in Vietnam and possible exposure to Agent Orange based on military records.

The herbicide, intended to clear jungle foliage along the Ho Chi ... provides between $30 to $40 million annually to Vietnam for Agent Orange-related disabilities, while Laos receives a fraction ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The U.S. Veterans Administration must honor the terms of a 1991 settlement and pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for ...