Source: https://community.hadit.com/topic/48027-agent-orange-kadena-afb-okinawa/?sortby=date
Timestamp: 2019-04-18 18:55:42+00:00

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded two more former service members compensation for exposure to Agent Orange while serving on Okinawa during the 1960s and '70s.
The article mentions one other award which I posted at hadit some time ago. There is a possible 4th award too.
The above veteran proved exposure to AO and also proved it was where he said he came in contact with it.
These claims are very difficult to succeed in-then again I know the vet who proved AO in Thailand and since then VA has service connected many Thailand vets to AO. This vet also was instrumental in the VA development of the Thailand VA Directive.Also the first Conus AO vet succeeded too.Both of these vets are members of hadit and relentlessly sought evidence.
The AO CONUS vet told me he even went back to Fort Gordon a few times (where he proved his exposure) to gather any info he could.
So nothing is impossible at all with VA.
But these claims take a lot of hard work.Kurt Priessman ,the Thailand vet, published considerable research he did, on the net ,for others to use.
VA doesn't care abut any Superfund designation. They need proof that AO was used stored or tested where the vet was, and then the veteran, via their MOS, must prove the exposure.
In the case of the 2 vets I mentioned above, they used documented statements of AO ( that info is here from the DOD) of the presense of the AO at their location and then their inservice duties put them on the perimeters of the military base or Fort and that is where it was ,because as likely as not, the perimeters were sprayed with AO.
I posted it some time ago as the link to the DOD's statement on use of herbicides outside of Vietnam.
Yes, I served at Karen's in USAF ARCLIGHT in 1968-69 for 6 months. In 2004 I contracted Non Hodgkin Lymphoma, large cell diffuse. It's in remission and I have peripheral neuropathy in my feet, hands and extremities. Diabetic and sleep disorder. I've never claimed.
"I was in Okinawa(Kadena AFB) from 1965 to 1968. I was in the Air Force as a material specialist I loaded these drums on planes everyday. I once asked my Commander what was in it and I was told none of my business. I now have Heart disease high bp, high blood sugar diabetic neurapathy Als I have had 2 toes and part of my foot amputated> I also had a stroke in 2013"
Since I posted ther 2012 info I think 2 more Okinawa vets ( one is a member here I believe have [proved exposutre to AO in Okinawa. Maybe even more.
Also the C 123s were found, in some cases , as Presumptive to AO.
This link might help-but is not specific for Okinawa yet AO has b een used or transported in many places-other than Vietnam.
You could have been exposed to AO in a different place than Okinawa.
I will try to find those 2 case that were awarded and post them here.
“1. Credible evidence sustains a reasonable probability that during service, while performing regular duties at the Naha Naval Port in Okinawa, Japan, the Veteran was exposed to Agent Orange from leaking barrels. 2. The Veteran is currently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type II.
“Next, explicitly considering the "unusual facts of this case" (and only this case), the Board finds that the evidence of record is at least in equipoise as to the question of whether the Veteran was exposed to herbicides during service. A July 2011 Joint Services Records Research Center (JSRRC) Agent Orange Request memorandum reflects that the Veteran was stationed at Naha Naval Port in Okinawa, Japan from October 1968 to May 1970. Numerous lay statements from both the Veteran and fellow service members over the past decade reflect that the Veteran's duties included hauling items and equipment from ships bringing supplies to and from the Republic of Vietnam.” Because diabetes mellitus, type II, is presumptively associated with herbicide exposure, service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, as a result of herbicide exposure is warranted on a presumptive basis. 38 U.S.C.A. § 5107; 38 C.F.R. § 3.102. As service connection is being granted on a presumptive basis, there is no need to discuss entitlement to service connection on any other basis, as other theories of service connection have been rendered moot, leaving no question of law or fact to decide. See 38 U.S.C.A. § 7104 (West 2014). ORDER Service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, is granted.” Because diabetes mellitus, type II, is presumptively associated with herbicide exposure, service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, as a result of herbicide exposure is warranted on a presumptive basis. 38 U.S.C.A. § 5107; 38 C.F.R. § 3.102. As service connection is being granted on a presumptive basis, there is no need to discuss entitlement to service connection on any other basis, as other theories of service connection have been rendered moot, leaving no question of law or fact to decide. See 38 U.S.C.A. § 7104 (West 2014). ORDER Service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, is granted.
Because diabetes mellitus, type II, is presumptively associated with herbicide exposure, service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, as a result of herbicide exposure is warranted on a presumptive basis. 38 U.S.C.A. § 5107; 38 C.F.R.
§ 3.102. As service connection is being granted on a presumptive basis, there is no need to discuss entitlement to service connection on any other basis, as other theories of service connection have been rendered moot, leaving no question of law or fact to decide. See 38 U.S.C.A. § 7104 (West 2014). ORDER Service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, is granted."

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