Agent Orange and Heart Problems]
RE: USS Estes (AGC-12)
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Subject: [Fwd: Agent Orange and Heart Problems]
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:18:06 -0700
From: MCAC mcac@extremezone.com
To: snooping4u@aol.com,
"'APFN'" apfn@apfn.org
Estes (AGC-12)
Anchored in mouth of Mekong River during January 1967
Anchored in mouth of Mekong River during January 1967
Conducted troop and supply beach landings during March and July-August 1965, at Chu Lai, Da Nang, and Qui Nhon and conducted small boat landings and a beach picnic at Vung Tau during April 1968
Agent Orange and Heart Problems.eml
Subject: Agent Orange and Heart Problems
From: MCAC mcac@extremezone.com
Date: 5/30/2012 9:05 AM
To:
Kenny (APFN) seen agent orange cloud when
he was in vietnam
Veterans who develop ischemic heart disease and were exposed to Agent Orange or other herbicides during military service do not have to prove a connection between their disease and military service to be eligible to receive VA disability compensation
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/conditions/ischemicheartdisease.aspAND
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32126468/ns/health-health_care/t/agent-orange-linked-serious-heart-disease/=========================================
http://ussestes.org/The year 1965 found ESTES in Southeast Asia once more for her second Vietnam deployment, under the command of CAPT Albert K. "Bert" Earnest, USN, 3 CAPT Earnest was relieved in October 1966 by CAPT Hugh D. Murphree, USN.
With CAPT Murphree in command in 1968, ESTES proceeded to her third Vietnam tour. While in Subic Bay in February, CAPT Jens B. Hansen, USN, relieved CAPT Murphree as Commanding Officer. The Southeast Asia tour was interrupted by a yard period in Yokosuka in August and, early in 1969, ESTES returned to San Diego, where she was soon to lose her "AGC" designator in favor of reclassification as "LCC-12."
In April of 1969, CAPT Edward B. Rogers, Jr., USN, relieved CAPT Hanson as Commanding Officer. ESTES' subsequent deployment to the Far East commenced that summer and was expected to extend for eight or more months. As soon as her relief, USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19), was completed at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, commissioned, underwent sea trials, and arrived in the Far East, ESTES would be released for return to San Diego. (BLUE RIDGE was the first of a new class of 23-knot, 19,290-ton LCCs.)
After a stop at Pearl Harbor, ESTES proceeded to the Far East. She made many calls, including Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea, Da Nang (Tourane), and Hong Kong. An unexpected turn of events precluded visits to Austrailia and Bangkok.
About three months into the deployment, CAPT Rogers received orders to return to San Diego for decommissioning. Back in San Diego, BOSN Johnny Boy Wade remained aboard to strip everything of value before ESTES was ordered into oblivion.
On 31 October 1969, ESTES was decommissioned for the final time.
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