Such tactics have helped Orange lower its disability ratios to 30 percent for fire and 28 percent for police during the last five years. “But it is still a challenge, a tough fight,” Pham said.

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to expand eligibility for Agent Orange disability benefits to Vietnam-era veterans who served at 129 locations in the U.S. during specific time frames, as ...

Peripheral neuropathy is on the Agent Orange disability list, but with a Catch-22 provision that a GI must report the condition within a year of wartime service. I served in an Army aviation unit ...

Agent Orange was stored at U.S. military bases in addition to being sprayed. Research has demonstrated that it can remain toxic in the soil for decades. The substance was banned in 1971.