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  2. Agent Orange - Wikipedia

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    The University of HawaiĘ»i has acknowledged extensive testing of Agent Orange on behalf of the United States Department of Defense in Hawaii along with mixtures of Agent Orange on Hawaii Island in 1966 and on Kaua'i Island in 1967–1968; testing and storage in other U.S. locations has been documented by the United States Department of Veterans ...

  3. Rainbow Herbicides - Wikipedia

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    The Rainbow Herbicides are a group of tactical-use chemical weapons used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.Success with Project AGILE field tests in 1961 with herbicides in South Vietnam was inspired by the British use of herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s, which led to the formal herbicidal program Trail Dust (see Operation ...

  4. Naval Construction Battalion Center (Gulfport, Mississippi)

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    Inspection of the Agent Orange Inventory at NCBC in Gulfport, 1975. (USAF) During the Vietnam War, NCBC Gulfport was the largest storage site in the United States for agent orange prior to shipment to Southeast Asia. [10] In 1968, the base received 68,700 55-gallon barrels of herbicide for shipment to Vietnam. [11]

  5. Operation Ranch Hand - Wikipedia

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    Agent Orange III: 66.6% n-butyl 2,4-D and 33.3% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T. [12] Enhanced Agent Orange, Orange Plus, Super Orange (SO), or DOW Herbicide M-3393: standardized Agent Orange mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T combined with an oil-based mixture of picloram, a proprietary Dow Chemical product called Tordon 101, an ingredient of Agent White. [13 ...

  6. Agent Orange Act of 1991 - Wikipedia

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    "Agent Orange: Actions Needed to Improve Accuracy and Communication of Information on Testing and Storage Locations" (PDF). U.S. GAO ~ 19-24. U.S. Government Accountability Office. November 15, 2018. H.R. 2634 - Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act of 2011 at Congress.gov; H.R. 326 - Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act of 2019 at Congress.gov

  7. Once A Component of Agent Orange, 2,4-D Herbicide Could ... - AOL

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    Huey helicopters were used to disperse Agent Orange across forests and farms in over 6,500 missions in a nine year period of the Vietnam War. Image source: Wikimedia Commons The use of Agent ...

  8. Vietnamese helping victims of Agent Orange used by US troops ...

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    Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed roughly 11 million gallons of the chemical agent dioxin used in Agent Orange across large swaths of southern Vietnam.

  9. Impact of Agent Orange in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The US-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, composed of members of the Aspen Institute, Vietnam National University, and Vietnam Veterans Association, is the most notable example of this civic response. Long-term programs and continued check-ups on the state of current plans to address Agent Orange are heavily monitored. [34]