My own was agent orange exposure which the VA acknowledges, yet say has nothing to do with my tremors, and they tell ME to prove it does. To receive updates on my teams efforts, sign up for the newsletter now. What you did for this for this country I s not too Much to ask. I am a Vietnam vet who is diabetic and I have ischemic heart disease, both of which are presumptive for Vietnam. Lets see what the VA does for me and others .For some reason they only admit Lejeune. I would love to find others that new him. Liars!!! This article is a joke! My belief is that ANYONE with a specific injury like yours, or ANYONE who served at least 6 months in a COMBAT zone should receive 100% compensation and completely eliminate the VA intake center employee jobs to fund those payments. I too am having issues obtaining benefits for my husband who served in Vietnam. When I put in a claim for the Agent Orange ( had a daughter that nearly died from a heart condition and a son 3 years later died of heart complications) were totally denied! This page list resources for Vietnam veterans exposed to agent organce, including certain Blue Water Navy veterans. My husband, who is a Vietnam vet, has scleroderma. Operation Ranch Hand. I have tinnitus and PTSD and it have being not approve my claim., for those. Its shameful how they have forgotten us. He had similar circumstances with diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer in Nov. 2014 and passed May 2015. Government Gaslighting: VA, the JSRRC, and Agent Orange exposure in Too bad this wont help my father or my family. Please, if anyone else has been diagnosed with Aphasia, or PPA -Primary Progressive Aphasia, please contact me. And on it goes now they are concerned again? Any help appreciated. Currently, the Department of Veterans Affairs mandates that veterans who served in southeast Asian countries other than Vietnam during the war provide evidence of exposure to the herbicide in order to qualify for benefits. What a VA. I have bladder cancer ive had stroke heart attack prostrate cancer and my lungs are scarred up. So many of these Vietnam era vets have already passed from this BS. I know Agent Orange was the cause of his death and many of his buddies he served with that died around the same time as he did 25 years ago! I was around that Agent Orange. Veteran's win leaves glimmer of hope for others who served in Thailand I was stationed at Camp Jackson near Uijeongbu for 16 months in 67 and 68, and spent some of that time in the DMZ establishing artillery survey control. Good luck. I lived in Okinawa in 1967-68, then was in Navy in Vietnam from Too late. I had this similar experience-only served immediately after the Vietnam conflict, on a LPH THAT TRANSPORTED agent orange, helicopters and, was deployed to south east Asia, and we took it to dry dock. They were very proud and I took there advice knowing in advance that every Marine is a rifleman. Im his daughter I was born in 1964 and I have Parkinsons and dystonia and other nurogical problems, and a brain DBS implant, all because of Dystonia, these diseases do not run in either side of my familys. Had a doctor and a judge state that my leukemia was the result of exposure to agent orange but the VA is giving me 0 per cent compensation. Senators John Boozman (R-AR) and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) are renewing their bipartisan effort to support veterans who served in Thailand during the Vietnam War-era by . Who has those, certainly not the individual service person. Spent a year on that Island as many other Vets. I have had my thyroid removed due to thyroid cancer and served in Vietnam Nam from 67 to 68.

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