12-11-15 VFW posted - VA Expands Agent Orange Ship List
VA Expands Agent Orange Ship List
The VA has expanded its list of Navy ships whose crews may be eligible for disability compensation as a result of potential exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The new additions include the survey ships Sheldrake and Towhee, attack transport ship Okanogan, submarine rescue ship Chanticleer, destroyers Frank Knox and James E. Kyes, and transport ship General W. A. Mann. The VA also expanded the dates of eligibility for sailors who served aboard the destroyer Fechteler, and extended possible presumptive status to sailors who went ashore from the guided missile cruiser Dewey or attack transport ships Pickaway or Paul Revere. The VA pays disability compensation to veterans or survivors for 14 medical conditions associated with Agent Orange exposure.
__________________
Boats
O Almighty Lord God, who neither slumberest nor sleepest; Protect and assist, we beseech thee, all those who at home or abroad, by land, by sea, or in the air, are serving this country, that they, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore in all perils; and being filled with wisdom and girded with strength, may do their duty to thy honour and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
"IN GOD WE TRUST"
|
12-12-2015, 08:45 AM
Linear Mode
