For the men of Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, the connection between their illnesses and Agent Orange came decades after exposure, when a former worker finally connected the dots.
” commissioned by Living Downstream. The environmental justice podcast series is from Northern California Public Media. Kalish joinsThe workers at Eglin were known as range technicians. Some of them went out and collected cardboard placards that had been sprayed, bringing them back to a lab to be analyzed. Others were cameramen operating massive refrigerator-sized color film cameras. As the cameramen filmed, they were also being sprayed.
“Sometimes, it would be like a mist,” Brown says. “But I remember one time, we got sprayed [and] it was like a mud. It was like a thin mud. It kind of covered us up. If we saw mist, I would not turn that camera off. I would sit there in my position unless they told me otherwise.” During the Vietnam War, Air Force C-123 planes sprayed millions of gallons of herbicides, known as Agent Orange, over the jungles of Southeast Asia to destroy enemy crops and tree cover.
In addition to their own exposures, Kalish says the workers now believe they were inadvertently exposing their wives and children. Linda Yates, widow of worker Jack Yates, describes how her then 3-year-old daughter would jump into her father's arms when he came home from work, so thickly covered in the chemical that it created a coating on his clothing.
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