BLUE WATER ATOLL ARCHIVE

Maps can be saved and resumed for later review by clicking the Save button. What if I still have my ships’ logs and logbooks? Accessibility to this information is so important to us and we are grateful to have had many ship logs extracted and imported in large part from the compilation work of Ed Ball, Director of Research of MVA & BWNA.īlue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans can select their ship from the list to see the points and dates that we have entered so far for that ship. Our team is working hard to enter coordinates from ship logs, building a database of ships, dates, and coordinates to facilitate searches from this time period. The Navy deck logs and Coast Guard deck logs are scanned by ship name and date. Veterans can access Vietnam-era ship logs on the National Archives and Records Administration website, site. We settled on using the Google Maps API and used the points identified by the law and then extended those 12 nautical miles seaward as defined by the law. Our team extensively researched ways to simplify the process of verifying whether coordinates from ships’ logs were inside the zone. The Blue Water Navy Veteran’s Act of 2019 Map provides a way for veterans to determine if their ship entered the zone created by the law. This means that symptoms must be present within 1 year of service on the ship, not necessarily a diagnosis. *CIDP: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy is presumptive within (1) year of exposure.

BLUE WATER ATOLL ARCHIVE

The map above will allow you to put in the name of the ship and the year served and, based on National Archive deck logs, cruise books, and ship history currently available for naval vessels, veterans will be able to see if their ship falls into the category of Blue Water Navy Ships during the period they served. This presumptive conditions list used to include only those who served boots on the ground or within the inland waterways of Vietnam, but now includes Blue Water veterans who served in the US Navy ships that were in open waters within the 12-mile radius of the coastline of Vietnam: Chronic B-cell LeukemiaĮarly Onset Peripheral Neuropathy* (CIDP)Īll United States crewmembers and personnel on Navy and Coast Guard ships who have a diagnosis of one or more of the above conditions, as well as any secondary conditions, and can prove they served within the 12-mile range of the coastal waters of Vietnam are now eligible for the presumption of service connection for these conditions as well as VA health care under the new law. The following conditions are presumptive to those who the Department of Veterans Affairs has conceded Agent Orange exposure and herbicide exposure to. What Are Agent Orange Presumptive Diseases? Just as Brown Water Veterans, who were typically on patrol boats, were awarded by the Agent Orange Act of 1991, finally, 28 years later, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act now states that Blue Water veterans are eligible for disability benefits due to presumption of exposure to Agent Orange, an herbicide agent, just as those veterans who had “boots on the ground” on Vietnamese soil. Public Law 116-23, The Blue Water Navy Veteran’s Act of 2019, created a presumption for certain illnesses due to Agent Orange exposure for those 50-90,000 veterans who served on a US Navy or Coast Guard ship between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, no further than 12 miles from the coast of Vietnam. Social Security Disability Benefits Guideīlue Water Navy Veterans are those who served in the open coastal waters of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War era.List of Blue Water Navy Ships Exposed to Agent Orange (Interactive Vietnam Map).Individual Unemployability Rating Calculator.

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