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user-inactivated  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Agent Orange: A Chemical Cocktail That Killed a Countryside & Scarred a People

Most planes in the Air Force are older than the pilots who fly them. I've flown on planes as old as '63 in some RC-135s, but most C-130s are within a few years of that. Because they were used so extensively in Vietnam almost all of the planes were used in Ranch Hand at some point.

This brings me to my point, which is that the VA still will credit an Agent Orange claim in cases where the veteran was only exposed to it by the plane proxy because it was proven to stick around so long and yet still have negative effects. That shit is nasty.