If you served aboard
the USS Hull during the 1972 Vietnam cruise you were exposed to Agent
Orange. We have lost several of our shipmates to either known Agent Orange
related or possible Agent Orange related issues. Three of them that I know
of are BM3 Greg Spicer, BT2 Jerry Falk, and SN Ronald Busby. If you have
experienced any of the following you should go to your nearest VA center and
begin the process of filing a claim:
AL Amyloidosis
Chronic B-Cell
Leukemia
Chloracne (if it
presents within one year of exposure to a degree of 10% disabling)
Diabetes Mellitus
Type 2
Hodgkin’s Disease
Ischemic Heart
Disease (including Coronary Artery Disease, stable and unstable angina,
myocardial
infarction, and sudden cardiac death – heart attacks)
Multiple Myeloma
Non-Hodgkin’s
Lymphoma
Parkinson’s Disease
Peripheral
Neuropathy, Early Onset (if it presents within one year of exposure to a
degree of
10% disabling)
(numbness and pain in the extremities)
Prostate Cancer
Respiratory Cancers,
including Lung Cancer
Soft Tissue Sarcomas
(other than osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma, and
mesothelioma)
Bladder Cancer
Hypothyroidism
Parkinson’s -like
symptoms (a condition with symptoms such as tremor, slow movement,
impaired speech,
and muscle stiffness that resembles Parkinson’s Disease but is not
formally
diagnosed as
such
Captain George
Nafziger, USN-Ret