WASHINGTON — From 1965 to 1970, an Air Force mission code-named "Operation Ranch Hand" sprayed around 12 million gallons of the toxic defoliant, Agent Orange, over 4.5 million acres in Vietnam.

It killed heavy vegetation during the Vietnam War and it left hundreds of thousands of veterans and Vietnam civilians with a lifetime of illness and eventual death. Now, a proposed rule change could ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has once again turned down an effort by Navy veterans to get compensation for possible exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. In a document released ...

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 ...

You may be aware that the Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded the locations military members may have been exposed to the weed killer known as Agent Orange when considering medical and ...

This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its efforts to determine how Vietnam veterans and their children have been affected by ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs will reexamine compensation claims from veterans exposed to Agent Orange while serving in the waters off Vietnam during the Vietnam War. All claims that were ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 26, 2010) -- The more than 100,000 veterans exposed to herbicides while serving in Vietnam and other combat areas will have an easier path to qualify for ...

Pegi Scarlett had just returned from her husband’s grave on Memorial Day – the first since his death – when, on a whim, she decided to search online whether other Vietnam vets had died of the same ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded its list of Navy ships whose crews may be eligible for disability compensation as a result of exposure to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange during the ...

VA officials said they will not make a decision on new Agent Orange conditions until the results of two VA studies are finalized. (Jon C Lackey/The Salisbury Post via AP) Under pressure from Congress ...