You should also Contact the Senate Veterans Committee.
Remember, the stated primary mission is to get the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans benefits restored. Once that is done, and this has always been the plan, we go after TLC, Korea and the other sites such as Guam, Johnston Island, Okinawa, Subic Bay & etc.
Stand to and stand strong my friends.
This bill is the best chance we have at getting the restoration of benefits in nearly a decade.
IOM Blue Water Navy Report Released!
The Institute of Medicine released the prepublication version of the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure Report to the public on Friday, May 20th, 2011. An electronic version of the report is available via the hyperlink above or visit the IOM website and type in “blue water” in the search box to get to the report.What does it mean?
This is an interesting passage:Exposure opportunity has been defined as the potential for exposure rather than as a quantitative determination of exposure (that is, relatable to dose) and is therefore only a crude estimate of dose (IOM, 2008). There are no environmental concentration data (for example, data on concentrations in soil and water) for the three populations of interest on which to base estimates of individual dose or exposure levels. Thus, the potential for exposure is the best—in fact, the only—available method for assessing and comparing exposure.(Qualitative)
While the quantitative data does not produce results due to the lack of pertinent information it does put the Blue Water Navy into the same class as the boots and brown water, scientifically.
Qualitatively the report does give a number of plausible means of exposure via the water and that, in my way of thinking, lends to us at least the benefit of doubt.
The committee found that Agent Orange-associated TCDD could, under some circumstances, contaminate marine waters off the coast of South Vietnam.
Blue Water Navy ships may have distilled those marine waters, so TCDD contamination of potable water aboard those ships was possible. Use of potable water containing Agent Orange–associated TCDD could result in inhalation exposure to TCDDs in water vapor during showering or other uses of hot water, such as cooking, and could result in volatilization of TCDD from the water during other uses, such as cleaning. Use of the water for showering and cleaning would also result in dermal exposure to TCDDs. Finally, the use of the potable water for drinking itself and for food preparation could lead to ingestion of TCDD.
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You'll find more information and steps to take to show your support.
The Blue Water Navy Document Repository.
The Da Nang Harbor Report,
a valuable resource that shows how you were directly contaminated by Agent Orange while in Da Nang harbor.
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