Approximately 2,594,000 US Servicemen served in Vietnam during the war. This includes the US Marine Corps, US Air Force, US Navy, US Coast Guard, and the US Army.
How many Vietnam Veteran's children, grand children, great grand children, etc. are being effected by Agent Orange, while the Government Looks the other way?
Roughly 1,264,000 American soldiers have died in the nation's wars--620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 in all other conflicts. It was only as recently as the Vietnam War that the amount of American deaths in foreign wars eclipsed the number who died in the Civil War.
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Correcting My Error:
From: Carmine Garritano [mailto:molokov@optonline.net]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 5:11 PM
To: alpete53@yahoo.com
Subject: 222nd PSC
Sir:
I served in the 44th Med Bgde from Oct 67 to Oct 68 in the 222nd Personnel Service Co. stationed in Saigon then Long Bien. We were responsible for assigning personnel and arranging all logistics associated with transferring medical personnel in and out of VN.
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Did you know, ALL combat Veterans discharged from active duty on or after Jan. 28, 2003, are eligible for medical care, five years post discharge? This means any Veteran who served in “a theater of combat operations” may be eligible for complete health care coverage for five years after departing the service.
A word of caution, like any government program – there are nuances. For example, generally this program does not apply to family members but might in limited instances (for example; caregivers).
However, if a Veteran only requires medical coverage for themselves and no other family member, for that time period (five years), the purchase of additional health insurance or coverage may not be necessary. This can be a powerful savings for both the Veteran and/or an employer.
The VHA website provides information on comprehensive Health Benefits and includes a link to their fully developed Veterans Health Benefits Guide. http://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/resources/epublications.asp#hbguide. Please help us spread the word to deserving Veterans. For more information, call 1-877-222-VETS (8387), 8 AM -8 PM EST, Monday – Friday.
Curtis L. Coy
Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Opportunity
Veterans Benefits Administration
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
1800 G Street, NW, Suite 510 - Mail Stop 20E
Washington, DC 20420
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THIS IS NOT A PAID POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT! INFACT I DON'T GET Paid anything for Stuff on this Web Site!
When you Go to the VA, Be Ware People make mistakes, Be Persistant, and don't take no for an answer!
Errors At The VA
Published on Nov 8, 2012
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs denied Navy vet Hosea Roundtree's disability benefits claim for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, saying it could find no evidence that he was in combat.
When a VA claims processor tried to intervene, she says she was forced out. Veterans' advocates say Roundtree's case illustrates the VA's priorities- productivity over accuracy- which has resulted in thousands of veterans being unfairly denied disability benefits.
Veterans Wrongfully Denied Benefits While The VA Looks The Other Way
Published on Jan 29, 2013 -- Received E-mail:
Curtis L. Coy
Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Opportunity
Veterans Benefits Administration
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
1800 G Street, NW, Suite 510 - Mail Stop 20E
Washington, DC 20420
Veterans Retraining Assistance Program helps Veterans gain the necessary education and training as they transition to new careers
The Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011, provides seamless transition for Servicemembers, expands education and training opportunities for Veterans, and provides tax credits for employers who hire Veterans with service-connected disabilities.
ARE YOU or a FELLOW VETERAN in CRISIS? MAKE THE CALL: 1-800-273-8255
Veterans and their loved ones now have three different ways to get help:
Phone: 1-800-273-8255, and press "1".
Text: send a text message to 838255.
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History of the 187TH AVIATION COMPANY (ASLT HEL)
269TH AVIATION BATTALION (COMBAT)
1ST AVIATION BRIGADE
Prepared by: Warrant Officer Albert A. Major
Approved by: Purvis L. Parker, MAJ. INF
TAY NINH, REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM APO S.F. 96216
September 1966
187th Assault Helicopter Company Activated
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Treating Female Veterans of War
Darrah Westrup, Ph.D., a recognized authority on the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related problems discusses the mental health needs of women who have served in the military, with emphasis on the emergent needs of OIF/OEF women.
This lecture explores the particular needs of military women and the most effective clinical treatments for them. Series: Treating the Invisible Wounds of War: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, Families and Care Providers [6/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 16252]
Nov 2007
Tens of thousands of US soldiers are returning from Iraq with severe mental problems. They feel abandoned by the Bush administration and claim officials are trying to hide the true scale of the problem.
"They take veterans, emotionally destroy them, then throw them back into society and say 'OK, you're on your own'", laments Joyce Lucey. Her son, Jeffrey, committed suicide traumatised by his experiences in Iraq.
For months before his death, he was vomiting on a daily basis. He had frequent nightmares and hallucinations and told an army psychologist he was planning to kill himself. Despite this, Jeffrey was denied hospital treatment.
"There's an epidemic of suicides among our returning veterans" states Paul Sullivan from Veterans for Common Sense. He believes the government deliberately makes it difficult for ex-soldiers to access support to downplay the problem.
"Top level employees were coming up with policies to block veterans with PTSD getting disability benefits and health care". Even veterans receiving treatment feel bitter about their experiences. "There's so many hoops and red tape to deal with", complains Steve Edwards.
It's estimated that it takes 12 to 15 years for a PTSD claim to be properly dealt with.
Now, in an attempt to reduce this delay, some ex-soldiers have launched a lawsuit aimed at forcing the Department of Veteran Affairs to overhaul its entire system.
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Verse 26: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Verse 27: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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Quang X. Pham is the author of the memoir, A Sense Of Duty: My Father, My American Journey. Through events in his fathers life and his own experiences as a refugee, and later U.S. Marine, he explores the relationship of America and Vietnam and the lasting effects of that war. From the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life at UC Santa Barbara. Series: Walter H. Capps Center Series
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Daryl Callender passed away on July 2nd 2012 from a brain aneurysm at the age of 66.
He will be missed, and He was one of our Hero's!
1966 - Enlisted Personnel of the 45th Surgical Hospital (MUST)
Callender, Daryl T. Rank - SP4 E-4 MOS 91B20 [MOS 91B20 is a Medical Specialist.]
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January 31, 2011, marks the 43rd anniversary of the Tet Offensive, a surprise attack by the North Vietnamese that took place on the first day of the Vietnamese new year -- a day that had been expected to be a quiet religious holiday. NavyTV is airing two episodes of the documentary series "Virginians At War," which feature vintage film footage taken during some of this historic event and first-person accounts from Virginia veterans of the Offensive. Tet Offensive - Chapter 1
Honorary Membership gifts help to provide rehabilitation support, access to benefits and advocacy efforts on our veterans' behalf, support for veterans' families, and research funding to bring hope for a brighter future.
Most important you will let veterans who have sacrificed so much to protect our country know they have the support and respect of proud, patriotic Americans like you.
Veterans' Research
Birth Defect Research for Children has worked with Vietnam veterans’ families since 1986 when the first Agent Orange Class Assistance Programs were funded. Although BDRC did not have AOCAP funding, we worked with the University of South Carolina in case work that involved counseling with veterans’ families and creating a series of fact sheets on the disabilities they were reporting in their children. During this time BDRC also began the first initiative to set up the National Birth Defect Registry, partly to collect the information being reported by the veterans.
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Dear Friends of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation!
I've always promised you I would not abuse your gift to us of your email address. This message is very important to you and I hope you'll take special note of it.
In our annual newsletter last year we alerted you to a massive research study recently funded by the Veterans Administration. We're cooperating with this study offering ideas for the tools and providing access to our Sister Search database. That was one of the very special purposes of the database.
This announcement informs you of the contacts you can make to ensure you could be included in the study. Please share this information as widely as you can. The attached flyer could be copied and used as a handout at meetings or social events. Please be an advocate for this very important study. We owe it to ourselves, and to our young sisters serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to develop this body of knowledge.
Who could be in the study?
Military Vietnam era veterans who served either “in-country”, “near-country” (ie: Japan, Phillippines, Guam), or anywhere else. Please note, this means that if you were assigned in Germany, or the US but never served in country during Vietnam, there is a chance to be included. There's no assurance, but there's a chance.
Please read this carefully and consider contacting the VA.
Thank you all!
Cindy Gurney, COL, USA (Ret)
Executive Director
Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation
1735 Connecticut Ave. NW, 3rd FL
Washington, DC 20009
Toll Free (866) 822-8963 vwmfdc@gmail.com www.vietnamwomensmemorial.org
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VA announcement of research involving Vietnam War era women veterans
On November 18, 2009, the Secretary of Veterans? Affairs Eric Shinseki announced that The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is launching a comprehensive study of women Veterans who served in the military during the Vietnam War to explore the effects of their military service upon their mental and physical health.
VA realizes that women Veterans require specialized programs, and this study will help the VA provide high-quality care for women Veterans of the Vietnam era. The study, which begins later this year (2010) and lasts more than four years, will contact approximately 10,000 women in a mailed survey, telephone interview and a review of their medical records.
As women Vietnam Veterans approach their mid-sixties, it is important to understand the impact of wartime deployment on health and mental outcomes nearly 40 years later. The study will assess the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and physical health conditions for women Vietnam Veterans, and explore the relationship between PTSD and other conditions.
The VA will study women Vietnam Veterans who may have had direct exposure to traumatic events, and for the first time, study those who served in facilities near Vietnam and in the United States. These women may have had similar, but less direct exposures. Both women Veterans who receive their health care from VA and those who receive health care from other providers will be contacted to determine the prevalence of a variety of health conditions.
About 250,000 women Veterans served in the military during the Vietnam War and about 7,000 were in or near Vietnam. Those who were in Vietnam, those who served elsewhere in Southeast Asia and those who served in the United States are potential study participants.
The study represents to date the most comprehensive examination of women Veterans, and will be used to shape future research on women Veterans in future wars. Such an understanding will lay the groundwork for planning and providing appropriate services for today's younger women Veterans, as well as for the aging Veteran.
For more information on the study you may go to the following website: https://www.csp.research.va.gov/csp579.cfm, For information on how to participate in the study please call 1-888-831-3325
H.R. 2254, the Agent Orange Equity Act of 2009 was introduced on May 5, 2009 by Congressman Bob Filner of California . He is the Chairman of the US House Committee on Veterans? Affairs. The bill currently has 253 co-sponsors in the House and is “stuck” in the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Chairman Filner has never called hearings on H.R. 2254 and is evasive when asked about when hearings will be held. A companion bill in the US Senate (S-1939) was introduced by Senator Susan Gillibrand of New York on October 27, 2009 and has only sixteen Senate co-sponsors. It currently sits in the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. Senator Akaka, Chairman of that committee has not responded to requests for information. And, it was just learned today, that the Institute of Medicine will hold a day-long hearing on Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure on May 3, 2010 in Washington , DC from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
This life-saving bill is designed to extend the presumption of herbicide (Agent Orange) exposure to US Navy veterans serving offshore. Informally, we are told that members of the House are hesitant to move because of its potential cost. It is estimated that approximately 265,000 “blue water” Navy and/or US Marine Corps personnel or their surviving family members will file claims if these two bills become law.
In 1999, the Royal Australian Department of Veterans Affairs discovered Agent Orange related cancers among sailors of their Navy who had never set foot in Vietnam . Australian Sailors were developing cancer at an even higher rate than those who served on the ground. The Australians found that the distilling process, used by ships to convert salt water to potable drinking water, was using contaminated water. That process actually enhanced the effect of the dioxin producing an Agent Orange cocktail that was ingested by the sailors through their drinking water. The American VA has inexplicably rejected the study. Although the Australians have granted an exposure presumption for over five years, the Americans continue to deny the claims.
In July of 2009, the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM)?s committee on Agent Orange independently validated the Australian report and recommended that the exposure presumption be extended to the Navy veterans. The IOM is required by law to provide recommendations and scientific support to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA has rejected the IOMrecommendation without adequate explanation.
Name: Sam Hung
from: Charlotte, NC
Comments: I was at the 45th surgical hospital as a translator during the years of 68 69 70 in Tay Ninh base camp. Please contact me if you still remember me. 704-724-3944
January 2, 2008 01:49:01 (GMT Time)
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You can have a bunch of small reunions with people close by in your Area !
This pamphlet is published to assist commanders and personnel
officers in determining or establishing the eligibility of individual
members for campaign participation credit, assault landing credit,
and unit citation badges awarded during the Vietnam Conflict, the
Grenada Operation, and the period of service subsequent to the
Vietnam Conflict up to September 1987. Additional unit awards are
included for meritorious achievement in the continental United
States (CONUS) and other foreign countries.
If you find that your unit citations were updated, get the VA to get you a new Updated DD-214 FORM.
The 228th Supply and Service Company (DS) worked in direct supply support activity to the 45th Surgical Hospital within Tay Ninh Base Camp beginning in early October 1966.
Any Questions About the 228th Supply and Service Company should be addressed to: Arthur Neighbor
Our Good Friends have a Brand New Web Site ! The 228th Supply and Service Company (Direct Support) - Vietnam
187th Helicopter Assault Company Crusaders (Rat-Pack)
The 187th was next to the 45th on Tay Ninh Base Camp on the North side of us. We had Friends in the 187th and when they were hurting we were hurting. I had a friend that got kidney problems so they shipped him back to the states, I never saw him again.
I may have been the Cobra pilot in 69 that scared you to death by the rubber trees ,those 2.75 rockets made a big bang.I was Ratpack 5 flying with the 187th.Enjoyed the pics....
Sincerely Dr. Rod
A short Reply from the WebMaster:
Alfred and Barnie (where ever he is), Thank you for Your Fire Support During that Fire Fight, and the Rush of Adrenaline... OH WHAT A RUSH !
Five Rockets heading toward your truck, on the way to the tree line 50 feet away, scared to death is an under statement.
Then we heard your Cobra Helicopter after the Rocket Fire, Our Lives Flashed before our eyes and then some.
But without that Fire Support we may not be here today, Thanks Again, Ratpack 5, Dr.Rod, 187th AHC.
History of the 187TH AVIATION COMPANY (ASLT HEL)
269TH AVIATION BATTALION (COMBAT)
1ST AVIATION BRIGADE
Prepared by: Warrant Officer Albert A. Major
Approved by: Purvis L. Parker, MAJ. INF
TAY NINH, REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM APO S.F. 96216
September 1966
187th Assault Helicopter Company Activated
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
I remember when we first got there, David E. Barnwell and Alfred L. Peterson, that's me, we had to learn fast on how to act.
When we had incoming rockets and mortars, in 1968 they were chinese made 107mm and 122mm rockets, some recoiless rifle hits, you can't hear those coming.
None of this was taught to us in basic training, or Advanced Individual Training (AIT).
Any way we learned that if you here a low pitch hum, hit it, the ground and lay flat as possible, then when you do not here anymore for a while, low crawl to the nearest bunker, never stand up cause it can get you killed.
Never stand in any place more than 3-4 minutes, due to snippers around the perimeter of the base camp.
When the planes landed and took off from Tay Ninh base camp, the aircraft were flown at a high angle, to keep from getting shotdown by small arms fire.
To give you an example of how jumpy a person got after a year of that. When my father picked me up at LAX, we were going down the freeway at 70 miles per hour, and I was checking every nook and cranny on both sides of the road, for snippers, convoy speed was 35-45 mph, I gave myself a head ache so I put my hands over my eyes, and my head down, when my father asked me what was wrong I said I just had a head ache. Later that day, after being awake for 72+ hours I finally got to sleep, my step mother & father were at work, when the down pitch of a police car siren sounded like an incomming rocket.
I was on the floor low crawling toward the bathroom, then I looked around me and realized where I was, and I was glad no one was there to see me.
There are alot of things that we keep to our selves because no one would understand, you had to be there, and experience what happened to really understand what another person is talking about who has been there.
When I got home to Miami Florida, I got my uncle to buy me 3 cases of Bud, sat in an easy chair staring out the front window for another 72 hours (3 days 24 hours a day), still sober, just listening to the new sounds of the hood.
Trying to adapt to my new surroundings, the people walking down the street must have thought I was nuts!
After my second tour in Vietnam, I found I could adapt better faster to my surroundings!
When I got out of the Army, I got married, we went shopping in a crowded store, I broke out in a cold sweat, cause people were bumping into me, and I could not see what they were doing with their hands.
So I told my new wife I'll wait in the car and I let her finish the shopping! I felt bad cause I could not explain why I felt that way!
In Vietnam when you go from the base camp to the village, you have to watch what people around you are doing with their hands, cause they might have a grenade!
Rex B. Wimmer Ambulance Medic: Rex came to Viet Nam after I had Been there for about 8 months. He use to go down to the perimeter during a firefight and pick up wounded, in a 3/4 ton tacticalambulance, with a big white background and redcross on the sides of it, as if to say to charlieshoot at me.... You see we did not have camouflauge trucks.... IF Anybody knows Rex's E-mail send it to Alfred L. Peterson Thanks...
Now our X-ray Tech's nick name was Moose
One Night when we had wounded comming in on the helopad. He and Cpt. Pederson where going throughthe sachels of grenades taken off of the wounded.You see they use to put the grenades in the sachelswithout the pins in them, so all they had to dowas grab and through them. Well Moose, grabbed a grenade that the Cpt. got out, because the spoon started to flip, and he tucked it toward his stomach and ran away toward the helopad, to put a pin in it. The Hospital Commander heard about it, and put Moose in for a Bronze Star, But he Never Got it. We Figured all those guys with the Generals in Long Bien Got Them all, At least that's what we thought...at the time.
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