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Agent OrangeProject RANCH HAND: The Men and the Mission

Agent Orange: Project RANCH HAND: The Men and the Mission [In 1962, the United States Air Force began using chemical herbicides as a tactical weapon in South Vietnam. The tactic lasted only 10 years, but controversy has continued. Flying unarmed, obsolescent aircraft at slow speeds and at tree-top level, the 1261 volunteers, under the code name “Operation RANCH HAND”, attacked the enemy’s environment again and again, while taking shots and hits from enemy groundfire more frequently than any other Air Force unit in the Vietnam War. At its peak in 1969, the Squadron consisted of 33 aircraft and performed a three-fold mission of defoliation, crop denial, and insect suppression. This chapter recounted the stories of Operation RANCH HAND in Vietnam as told by the men who flew the defoliation missions, and to the memory of those men who died during those missions. Within this chapter is also a summary of Operation RANCH HAND prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Paul F. Cecil, author of Herbicidal Warfare: The RANCH HAND Project in Vietnam. In 1980, the men of RANCH HAND volunteered to participate in a 20-year Air Force Health Study of the impact of Agent Orange exposure on their health. The results of the A 20-year epidemiologic study did not provide evidence of diseases in the RANCH HAND veterans caused by their elevated levels of exposure to Agent Orange or the associated dioxin contaminant.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Agent OrangeProject RANCH HAND: The Men and the Mission

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 58)
Young, Alvin L.
Agent Orange — Jul 26, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-08186-6
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9 –33
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-08187-3_2
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[In 1962, the United States Air Force began using chemical herbicides as a tactical weapon in South Vietnam. The tactic lasted only 10 years, but controversy has continued. Flying unarmed, obsolescent aircraft at slow speeds and at tree-top level, the 1261 volunteers, under the code name “Operation RANCH HAND”, attacked the enemy’s environment again and again, while taking shots and hits from enemy groundfire more frequently than any other Air Force unit in the Vietnam War. At its peak in 1969, the Squadron consisted of 33 aircraft and performed a three-fold mission of defoliation, crop denial, and insect suppression. This chapter recounted the stories of Operation RANCH HAND in Vietnam as told by the men who flew the defoliation missions, and to the memory of those men who died during those missions. Within this chapter is also a summary of Operation RANCH HAND prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Paul F. Cecil, author of Herbicidal Warfare: The RANCH HAND Project in Vietnam. In 1980, the men of RANCH HAND volunteered to participate in a 20-year Air Force Health Study of the impact of Agent Orange exposure on their health. The results of the A 20-year epidemiologic study did not provide evidence of diseases in the RANCH HAND veterans caused by their elevated levels of exposure to Agent Orange or the associated dioxin contaminant.]

Published: Jul 26, 2022

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