A premium was placed on responding to needs of soldiers who had "boots on the ground" in Vietnam. This dividing line for benefits has never made sense. Can't a Navy pilot contract PTSD in the same way an Army infantry soldier is hit by this illness?
Osterman said members of the military responsible for storing, loading and transporting Agent Orange suffered exposure. For example, airmen serving at bases in Guam or Japan may never have been in Vietnam, but were subjected to doses sufficient to undermine their health.
In that light, Osterman succeeded in helping convince the Kansas House to pass a resolution urging the U.S. Congress to provide "equal benefits and compensation for the treatment of Agent Orange exposure to Vietnam era veterans who serviced outside Vietnam."
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