Isaac Scientific Publishing

Environmental Pollution and Protection

The Agents Orange and Purple Controversy on the Island of Guam

Download PDF (240.6 KB) PP. 110 - 116 Pub. Date: September 1, 2017

DOI: 10.22606/epp.2017.23004

Author(s)

  • Alvin L. Young
    A. L. Young Consulting Inc., Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
  • Kristian L. Young*
    A. L. Young Consulting Inc., Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

Abstract

This article examines the available documentation adduced by Vietnam-era veterans and others to support the allegation that Agents Orange and Purple were shipped to and used on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and that veterans stationed there during the Vietnam War Era were exposed to these military tactical herbicides. The documentation was further evaluated in the context of the extensive historical records on tactical herbicides retained in the National Archives and Records Administration and other archival repositories addressing the locations where shipment, storage, use, or burial of tactical herbicides occurred. The conclusion from the submitted documentation, all identified historical records and studies by the United States Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and Environmental Protection Agency is that no plausible scenarios of exposure to Agents Orange or Purple occurred at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam.

Keywords

Agent orange, agent purple, vietnam-era veterans, tactical and commercial herbicides, island of guam, korean conflict

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