I was sent these records from one of our sotto voce members who would probably prefer to keep his head down and deny he did. We owe him a great debt. I have read extensive records on Project Checo-mostly dealing with our disaster over the fence in Laos. Having lived it as well, I find most of the Checo records to be above board. It is hoped that you Veterans who were exposed to this in Thailand will be able to get some measure of justice from your exposure. Considering the govt. denied it as long as they could and then tried to make light of it as being sparsely employed, this will put paid to it. You, as Veterans, will still find it an uphill battle to get SC on any of the presumptives but it is hoped that these records will be helpful. Please pay attention to the ROEs or Romeos as we called them. They tended to vary from base to base.
One thing that these records do not shine light on is the use at the other sites I mentioned in my prior post. Det. B, 7thRRFS at Chiang Mai was nuked to the bone for the 18 months I was there yet strangely there is no mention of it anywhere. The fields of fire around the airport, the MRC-98 tropo antennas and Operating Location bldgs. were similarly denuded. Kho Kha (Lampang) looked very much the same so the truth on the smaller sites was never documented or admitted to.
I enclose the whole email as far as possible but cringe at the idea of publishing the actual email addresses to prevent any repercussions.
Chuck Palazzo
Agent Orange Action Group
http://aoag.org/
Hoa Binh Chapter, Veterans For Peace
http://vfp-vn.ning.com/
The complete reports can be found here: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=bdb328182ccb4e51#cid=BDB328182CCB4E51&id=BDB328182CCB4E51%21193 in the OCONUS tests and analysis.
For the record, the reports should not be used in a claim for disability compensation. Pranburi is approximately 90 kilos southwest of Bangkok on the peninsula adjacent to what was then Burma. The tests were classified, meaning there are few to no servicepersons who were involved. Use has already been conceded in Thailand, so the reports have no legally constructive use, and have been and are used specifically to deny claims by Regional Offices who fail willfully or through neglect or stupidity to update the current information. This applies to the military services as well, as JSRRC fails to include or admit knowledge of or update their records with these official documents.
It is my humble opinion, that along with pictures of duty locations, specific detail and supporting statements to individual claims, the following urls are of much greater importance:
https://skydrive.live.com/?sc=documents&cid=bdb328182ccb4e51#cid= BDB328182CCB4E51&id=BDB328182CCB4E51%211973&sc=documents
As my health continues to worsen significantly, this website will remain open to any of my brothers in arms who wish to peruse it.
If this helps only one of you get SC then it served it’s purpose. (AN) The internet is an amazing thing and WordPress is even more so. It’s free.
asknod
Bethanie Spangenberg
kcraveiro
robinhoodesqvetsatty
Wesley McCauley
Veterans Claims Help 
Question? Why the colors of the old Vietnamese flag?
If you mean the colors at the top of my page, it is the Vietnamese Service Medal awarded to everyone who served in-country or in support of the war in Vietnam by the U.S. military .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Service_Medal Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Campaign_Medal issued by the former RVN.