Veterans Last to know! Timeline of the C-123 Agent Orange Deception

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History of the C-123 Agent Orange Contamination 1972-1982...C-123 warplanes' continued service after Vietnam Agent Orange spray missions

1978...First known C-123 veteran's Agent Orange illnesses surfaced (peripheral neuropathy) but not understood to be caused by Agent Orange at the time.

1979...Military herbicide residue was first confirmed to contaminate C-123 aircraft.

1983...First C-123 Agent Orange death (Robert Boyd, ischemic heart disease).

Smelting C-123 

1994...Agent Orange contamination of C-123 warplanes became known to officials in the Air Force.

1996...Air Force JAG directed all Agent Orange contamination in the C-123 be "kept in official channels only."

2010...All remaining C-123 warplanes destroyed as "toxic waste."

2011...C-123 veterans first learn of Agent Orange contamination of the airplanes we flew for a full decade, between 1972 and 1982. 

VA Tom Murphy:"TCDD harmless"

2011...Office of Secretary of Defense labeled C-123 veterans "trash haulers, freeloaders looking for a tax-free dollar from sympathetic congressmen."

2012...Veterans Administration official notifies C-123 veterans Agent Orange isn't actually harmful, so there was no exposure to any C-123 veteran, and VA will bar all C-123 veterans from all medical care for Agent Orange illnesses.