Benefits for ‘blue water’ veterans finalized after years-long fight
By: Leo Shane III   21 hours ago
The “blue water†Vietnam veterans benefits act is now law.
Late Tuesday night, President Donald Trump signed the legislation, which grants presumptive status for disability benefits to an estimated 90,000 Navy veterans who served in the seas around Vietnam during the war.
Unlike their fellow service members stationed on the ground and on inland waterways, those veterans faced additional paperwork barriers to prove exposure to toxic defoliants during their deployments, even after developing identical serious cancers and respiratory illnesses.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/06/26/benefits-for-blue-water-veterans-finalized-after-years-long-fight/
