It looks like we hit the same beaches in Nam.
Merry Christmas and WELCOME HOME, Brother
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A Merry Christmas to you and yours also, and
Welcome Home Brother.
“Sad” to say but my VN adventures were before all the ‘official’ fun started. I was ‘there’ before we were there.<:
Only took em 35 yrs or so to ‘own up to it’.
Glad I wasn’t severely wounded or such, ‘they’ tend to forget one if they weren’t were they were and it wasn’t recognized...
Took them that long to recognize and THEN it was a ‘if you earned 2 of these’ you rate one of these...
Typical Govt work...Like all those years they basically ‘denied’ AO, after many deaths and now that ‘we’ are starting to fade off, they will make people that never left the Pentagon ‘eligible’ for AO ‘benefits’, I guess just to ease their conscience....
At least they recognized the Gators/
I got this from a web site.
For the purposes of VA compensation benefits, Veterans who served anywhere in Vietnam between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975 are presumed to have been exposed to herbicides, as specified in the Agent Orange Act of 1991. These Veterans do not need to show that they were exposed to Agent Orange or other herbicides in order to get disability compensation for diseases related to Agent Orange exposure.
Service in Vietnam means service on land in Vietnam or on the inland waterways of Vietnam. This includes Veterans who:
• Set foot in Vietnam (This includes brief visits ashore, such as when a ship docked to the shore of Vietnam or when a ship operated in Vietnam’s close coastal waters for extended periods and crew members went ashore, or smaller vessels from the ship went ashore with supplies or personnel. The Veteran further must provide a statement of personally going ashore.)
• Served on a ship while it operated on the inland waterways of Vietnam
Find your ship
Ships or boats that were part of the Mobile Riverine Force, Inshore Fire Support (ISF) Division 93 or had one of the following designations operated on the inland waterways of Vietnam. Veterans whose military records confirm they were aboard these ships qualify for presumption of herbicide exposure.
During your Vietnam tour, did your ship or boat have one of the following designations?
• LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized)
• LCU (Landing Craft, Utility)
• LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel)
• LST (Landing Ship, Tank)
• PBR (Patrol Boat, River)
• PCF (Patrol Craft, Fast or Swift Boat)
• PG (Patrol Gunboat)
• WAK (Cargo Vessel)
• WHEC (High Endurance Cutter)
• WLB (Buoy Tender)
• WPB (Patrol Boat)
• YFU (Harbor Utility Craft)
Also I counted over 80 DD, DDE, DDG on the list and even some Cruisers
along with other support ships. What a crock.
Tony