Re: Agent Orange...VA Disability
I was sent to guam during the Vietnam war 1970-71 .I was a duty driver aboard the AS-19u s s PROTEUS.I made three trips a day to Anderson a f b ,more if needed .I was there when the west coast dock strike hit guam,we ran out of every thing,we had a submarine along side of the ship that couldn't deploy because it had no toilet paper.one day I was ordered to muster outside the main gate of Anderson a f b and wait for instructions,the instructions came in the form of two airmen in a jeep with a yellow beacon light attached to a eight ft pole,we followed the jeep into the base and soon turned off the road and unto the large expanse of grass until we reached the boonies(jungle)we plowed through the boonies until we reached the main runway which was two miles long before we could ask anything the first plane flew over the runway pushing large crates with parachutes out the back it was very noisy several of us climbed the berm to see what was happening the first plane dropped two crates and airmen disconnected the parachutes and then the biggest forklift I've ever seen pushed the crates off the runway where we were waiting.I remember how much dirt&dust was in the air.we broke into the crates and found toilet paper,we loaded our trucks and returned to our bases when I got back to my ship I was quickly off loaded and sent back to Anderson a f b for more supplies .I was driving away when I noticed the submarine along side of the ship was leaving.I now realize that I was sent to the most heavily sprayed(herbicides)area of Anderson a f b .I was diagnosed with WALDENSTROM MACRO GLOBULAR ANEMIA AND DIABETES mellitus in 2003,I've been denied several times by different service organizations,I was put on social security disability in 2005,I feel betrayed by my gov and feel abandoned by congress that they let this happened to every service man that was sent to guam.after hearing that they could not confirm or deny for ten years I think they are coping out with that ambitious statement,I think there is reasonable doubt about agent Orange use and so does the gov of GUAM,they have petitioned the US gov to admit that they used agent Orange on guam.there are many veterans who have sworn they used agent Orange while stationed on guam mstg leroy foster even talked to the president about this problem of denial of agent Orange use on GUAM
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