I along with hunderds of Air Force personal assigned who had no idea as to where the agent orange was placed. As fo me, I worked the flight line on Kc-135s. On ocassion, some 135 would be covered with some sort of liquid.
We were told that some time our aircraft fly through contaminated air space with agent orange. Any fool knows that almost anything airborne can be spreaded by wind. To the best of my knowledge, we cannot control the wind nor the direction inwhich it blows.
To ask an airmen to prove he did not come in contact with agent orange, without being told at the time that it existed in our area is terrible and unfair. We made a mistake and should face up to it and do the right thing.
I have a number of illinesses that are listed on the agent orange list. Heart, Type II diabetes... I spent over thirty years of my adult life serving my country to be treated in shuch a shabby manner as some others.
Purnell F. Ross, Jr., CMSGT, USAF Ret.
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