Military Exposure to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Research

Some of these websites and PDFs have thousands of research documents, reports and additional links for any researcher interested in pursuing a more complete understanding of human herbicide exposure and its affects.

• VVA Applauds Swift Action of VA Secretary in Adding Bladder Cancer, Hypothyroidism, and Parkinsonism to list Agent Orange-recognized Diseases
• Vietnam Veterans with Bladder Cancer, Other Serious Illnesses Would Get Presumptive Benefit Status in Final Defense Budget Bill
• VVA Applauds the Passage of NDAA and Tester/Harder Amendment; Urges President Trump to Sign This Legislation Immediately
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Holds Hearing on the Fiscal 2021 Budget Request for the VA Department
• New List of Agent Orange Test and Storage Sites Omits More than 40 Previously Identified Locations
• Study Results on New Agent Orange Diseases Not Expected Until ‘Late 2020’ says VA Secretary
• Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019; Public Law 116-23; Agent Orange Related Presumptive condition; 38 CFR 3.309(e); See Also This
• The List of Military Sites with Suspected ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contamination has Grown
• Because Every Birth Defect has a Cause
• Legislation Doubles Time for Healthcare Coverage of Veterans' Newborns
• Police Confirm Tear Gas Rounds Fired May Contain Dioxin, A Highly Toxic Component That Can Stay in Human Body for Over 35 Years
• Thailand Veterans Exposed to Chemicals Fight for Coverage
• VVA Holds OMB, Director Responsible for Withholding Benefits for Agent Orange-Afflicted Vietnam Veterans
• Tester to VA: ‘End the Wait’ for Vietnam Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange
• Tester to Hold Press Conference Calling on Administration to ‘End the Wait’ for Vietnam Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange, Sep 20, 2019
• VA Rejects Claim of Tampa Veteran Who Says He Was Sprayed by Agent Orange
• Superfund Sites Targeted for Immediate, Intense Action
• VA Extends Agent Orange Presumption to ‘Blue Water Navy' Veterans
• Navy & Coast Guard Ships Associated with Service in Vietnam and Exposure to Herbicide Agents
• Bayer Jury Awards $2 Billion Damages in Third Roundup Trial
• New Legislation Would Recognize Nine More Diseases Caused by Agent Orange
• Agent Orange Report 2019-03-31 FINAL
• Agency Information Collection Activity: Application for Benefits for Certain Children With Disabilities Born of Vietnam and Certain Korea Service Veterans
• Exposure Ed
• Agent Orange Newsletter 2018
• Hypertension Linked to Agent Orange
• Sprayed and Betrayed: Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange Feel Abandoned by VA (YouTube)
• Reliving Agent Orange: Charles Marshen was 'Drenched in the Defoliant' (YouTube)
• Do You Ever Think About a Vietnam Veteran's Kid? (YouTube)
• Agent Orange Aftermath - Vietnam Veterans Speak Out – Vietnam: The Secret Agent (YouTube)
• What Agent Orange Does to The Body (YouTube)
• Reliving Agent Orange: Blue Water Navy Veteran Jim Smith (YouTube)
• The Children of Agent Orange (YouTube)
• Impacts Being Seen in Grandchildren of Vietnam War Veterans, is it Agent Orange? (YouTube)
• Agent Orange and Children of Vietnam Veterans (YouTube)
• The Children of Agent Orange (YouTube)
• The Dark Shadow of Agent Orange | Retro Report | The New York Times (YouTube)
• What is Agent Orange? | History (YouTube)
• Reliving Agent Orange: What the Children of Vietnam Vets Have to Say (YouTube)
• Sep 1, 2018 – VA Agent Orange Claim Submission
• Aug 30, 2018 – VA Cites Slow-Rolled Agent Orange Report to Oppose Spina Bifida Bill
• Aug 9, 2018 – Email to John Rowan (PDF)
• Jun 24, 2018 – Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee Report (PDF)
• May 18, 2018 – Impacts Being Seen in Grandchildren of Vietnam War Veterans, is it Agent Orange?
• Dec 14, 2017 – Health and Medicine Division Reports on Agent Orange
• Dec 14, 2017 – Agent Orange VHI
• Dec 14, 2017 – Agent Orange Newsletter - Summer 2017
• Nov 3, 2017 – Blue Water Navy Vets Foiled Again House Committee Tables H.R. 299
• Nov 2, 2017 – VA Delays Key Agent Orange Decisions
• Nov 2, 2017 – Agent Orange: The Wait for Justice Continues
• Nov 1, 2017 – Statement from Secretary of Veterans Affairs on Agent Orange Presumptive Conditions
• Nov 1, 2017 – House Veterans Affairs Committee Votes on Passage of H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017
• Nov 1, Oct 27, Sep 29 & 15, 2017 – Congress Heard Your Voices on September 11, Supporting the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act
• Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee Report for the Veteran

  Oct 25, 2017 – I just got back from the October 2017 BOD Meeting which was very busy for my committee. Our Thursday the Pre-committee Meeting in the VVA National Library was very well attended by many. This meeting is open to all to speak with their ideas and knowledge on this toxic issue. The next day was the main committee meeting which was also well attended. We had 2 speakers at the beginning of the meeting. Dyland Chandler of Congressman Valodo, Calif. updated us on the progress of the Blue Water Navy legislation HR299. On the telephone hook- up we had in place at the meeting was John Wells who has been leading that legislation. We will in VVA continue on doing call-in days to help that legislation to move along. Colt Romberger of Expedition Agent Orange also updated the committee on his progress on riding his horse across America in honor of his father and all veterans that have problems due to their exposure to Agent Orange. We also had an update from Wes Carter on the C-123 issue on our telephone set up. Mokie Porter and I updated the committee on our attendance at the NASME that came to Minnesota for their meeting on the issue. They have been tasked to gather research for the VA who now is tasked to do the S901 legislation on the children and grandchildren. We have thus far completed about 400 town hall meetings all- across America. We must, continue on doing the town halls for veterans and their families that have not heard of the problems that we all have with our kids. It is an educational process at this time. Also, keeping in mind the modern-day warriors who also have been exposed to many toxic substances. We need to take them under our wing to educate them also. Our committee meetings of 2 hours is never enough on this issue as there is much work to be done. I believe the road will be very long on this issue, perhaps until the good Lord calls us home. At that time our young brothers and sisters will need to take over our mission. Much has been coming out on toxic substances left behind on former bases all across America and all over the world where the USA had military bases. These issues need to be addressed also. What a mess that we have left behind for someone to clean up. We have accomplished much though VVA thus far. Being in the 4th quarter of our lives we have limited time to do more and will. We are the veterans group that have started this base education on toxic substances and will continue on as long as we can. I just want to thank everybody for their hard work, as we are a team. A team that gets the job done.

  Maynard Kaderlik,
  VVA National Agent Orange Committee Chair
  507-581-6402

• Oct 16, 2017 – Correction: Role of Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Dysfunction in Veterans with Gulf War Illness
• Sep 27, 2017 – 6 Disturbing Takeaways from a New Investigation into Toxic Pollution on Bases
• Sep 25, 2017 – Tester, Murray, Sanders, Brown, Manchin Urge VA to Expand List of Medical Conditions Linked to Toxic Exposure
• Sep 7, 2017 – Vietnam Veterans of America – Call In Alert
• Aug 20, 2017 – How Agent Orange Worked
• Aug 18, 2017 – Agent Orange Zone
• Aug 10, 2017 – C123K Veteran Agent Orange Exposure 1972-1982
• Jul1 9, 2017 – Adverse US District Court Burn Pit Decision
• Jun 25, 2017 – Agent Orange/Dioxin Committee Report (PDF)
• Jun 12, 2017 – ProPublica Hammers VA Over Recent Agent Orange Science Rejection
• Jun 5, 2017 – Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange
• May 23, 2017 – National Birth Defect Registry
• Dec 2, 2016 – Agent Orange Controversy in the Republic of South Korea (PDF)
• Mar 20, 2016 – VA Environmental Exposures Registries for Veterans Evaluation (PDF)
• Feb 5, 2016 – Blue Water Navy Dioxin Exposure
• Jan 14, 2016 – What is ADHD?
• Jul 1, 2015 – Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request: VHA-15-05069-F (PDF)
• Mar 10, 2015 – 10 Things to Know About Agent Orange
• Nov 13, 2014 – Agent Orange Legacy
• Oct 29, 2010 – Agent Orange Validity Study
• Jun 20, 2010 – VA Quietly Giving Benefits to Marines Exposed to Toxic Water
• Apr 29, 2008 – Statistical Information About Casualties of the Vietnam War
• Oct 1, 2001 – Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans: Adrenal Gland Cancer, Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Supplementary Report 2
• Mar 29, 2000 – Basic Agent Orange Information
• Aug 7, 2000 – Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans: Suicide in Vietnam Veterans' Children, Supplementary Report 1
• Agent Orange Validation Study Library of Congress
• Herbicide Exposures and Ships List (PDF)
• National Veterans Legal Services Program
• The Stories of Agent Orange
• Vietnam Veterans of America – Agent Orange
• VVA Education Campaign (Facebook)
• VVA Education Campaign (Twitter)
• VVA What Do You Know About Agent Orange? (YouTube)