Posted on Mar 25, 2014
SGT Thomas Lucken
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Many of the Facebook Korea/Military Groups I am in.&nbsp; Many of us have discussed this issue.&nbsp; VA proclaims that people there starting in 68 up to Oct 1971 fall in line of Agent Orange.<br><br>What many of us question who were there from 1972 on, is residing AO still residing years after the use.&nbsp; AO was heavily used back then along the DMZ, at least what was known as the American sector!&nbsp; <br><br>Many that I have talked to have AO like symptoms who been on the DMZ through 70's and 80's like I do.&nbsp; 1991, we turned our sector over to the ROK Army.<br><br>Vietnam majority of our Troops were pulled out by 1973, so we don't know the long term effects of AO be present in earth.&nbsp; But Korea, which seems to still be somewhat a secret that it was used.&nbsp; Nobody has seem to ever make the studies of how long the toxins Agent Orange reside.&nbsp; <br><br>Being involved in the VFW, I guessing my next course of action is to go through the chain there and see if we can push the issued.&nbsp; <br><br>My question to those that were up on the DMZ whether station at Greaves, ORF, and patrols and so forth.&nbsp; Have you had similar issues to AO?&nbsp; It is issue I am thinking now, that we have to force forward....<br>
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I was at Camp Greaves all of 1973, use to guard the civilians spraying the area with agent orange. Most of the Vietnam Vets told us it was agent orange, I never heard of it, but it was good stuff that killed the bush growth on the fence line.
Even here on Guam, in the 60's agent orange was sprayed on the fence line for years at Anderson AFB. The government said, no agent orange was used for years, now they are saying, yes agent orange was used.
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SGM Bill Frazer
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I saw a write up one time about AO, AW, AB- it said it was commonly used around many bases both OCONUS and CONUS as a brush deterrent. I suggest contacting the AO Vet group for more info.
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SGT Randall Bryan
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I had 2 tours of duty in Korea, 1981-1982 and 1984-1985. I have been diagnosed with CCL. My claim was recently denied by the VA.
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SGT Thomas Lucken
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Yeah, VA plays that A.O. was not present in the 80s! B.S. I know to many guys who served in the 80s, that suffer from A.O. related illnesses...... What unit/s were you Randall?
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SGT Randall Bryan
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I was in 1/9 2nd Inf Div in 81-82 and 1/31 2nd Inf Div in 84-85
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