PORTLAND, MAINE – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is going to investigate whether Maine soldiers were exposed to dangerous chemicals, including Agent Orange, while training at CFB Gagetown.
MaineToday Media says more than one hundred former National Guard soldiers from the state of Maine have sought disability benefits for health problems believed linked to their training at Gagetown.
The Department of Veteran Affairs rejected the claims.
It says there’s no evidence that Agent Orange, a Vietnam War-era chemical defoliant, was used during the time thousands of Maine soldiers trained at the base.
FILE - In this May 1966 file photo, a U.S. Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth beside the road to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Because of concerns about Agent Orange, more than one-quarter of the 1 million Vietnam veterans receiving disability checks are getting compensation for diabetes and other common ailments of age, with erectile dysfunction among them, according to millions of VA claims records obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, File)
CDC investigating Agent Orange claims
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