If you are a Vietnam Blue Water Navy veteran, you will have special interest in this.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/p...tnam-veterans/
We are being told this effects over 90,000 vietnam vets that served onboard the ships in Vietnam. For years the VA has enforced a "boots on the ground" policy to qualify for benefits under the agent orange act of 1991, thus eliminating the many veterans that have and continue to suffer from the exact same diseases as those counterpart veterans that had "boots on the ground". Finally the courts have ruled that the VA's decision to deny AO benefits for those in the "Blue Water Navy" was flawed and plain out wrong.
This will open the door to those of us that were exposed to Agent Orange on the carriers and other ships working on yankee station in the gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam war to the same VA benefits as those that had "boots on the ground" as the VA called it.
PM me if you want more information on this! This is a great victory for many veterans and their families. Special thanks to Cmdr John Wells!