Burn Pits Protocol
âIt is difficult to say how many Vietnam veterans have been affected by Agent Orange. However, any veteran who served in Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, is presumed by the VA to have been exposed to
Agent Orange.â Other locations of likely exposure to Agent Orange include the Korean Demilitarized Zone and Thailand. Approximately 250,000 of the 697,000 U.S. veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War are afflicted with enduring chronic multi-symptom illness, a condition with serious consequences.
The âpresumption of service connectionâ designation has not been established by the VA for Gulf War Syndrome, nor for damage from Burn Pits. A Bill making its way through Congress dubbed the