Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of veterans exposed to Agent Orange while serving in the United States will for the first time be eligible for ...

FOX 2 (WJBK) - The PACT Act is a new law that expands health care and benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxins. Many of our servicemen and women who’ve had health ...

(Tribune News Service) — Legal counsel for the Illinois Association of Veterans Assistance Commissions filed a complaint in federal court Thursday seeking access to documents regarding “Blue Water ...

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 well ...

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Feb. 9 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday proposed changes that will expand veteran access to healthcare benefits for service members exposed to Agent Orange while serving ...

WASHINGTON — More than 10,500 benefits claims for leukemia, multiple myeloma and other diseases related to herbicide exposure were overlooked for more than a year by the Department of Veterans Affairs ...

An Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong in May 1966. (Department of Defense) Thousands of ...

As a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the oceanside woodlands, training on soil and guzzling water from streams and aquifers now known to be ...

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