Agent Orange Presumptive Conditions And Service Rules

VA lists 19 disease categories associated with qualifying herbicide exposure. Some conditions have one-year manifestation requirements. Location dates and affected C-123 duties matter. Other proven herbicide exposures can be considered on their evidence; being near an unlisted site alone is not a presumption.

Listed Locations And Date Groups

• Republic of Vietnam and inland waterwaysJanuary 9, 1962 through May 7, 1975
• Specified offshore waters of VietnamJanuary 9, 1962 through May 7, 1975
• U.S. or Royal Thai military bases in ThailandJanuary 9, 1962 through June 30, 1976
• LaosDecember 1, 1965 through September 30, 1969
• Mimot or Krek, Kampong Cham Province, CambodiaApril 16, 1969 through April 30, 1969
• Guam, American Samoa and their territorial watersJanuary 9, 1962 through July 31, 1980
• Johnston Atoll and ships calling thereJanuary 1, 1972 through September 30, 1977
• In or near the Korean Demilitarized ZoneSeptember 1, 1967 through August 31, 1971
• Affected C-123 aircraft and associated Air Force unitsUnit-specific dates in VA tables span 1962 through 1986; verify the particular assignment period

Condition References

• AL amyloidosis
• Bladder cancer
• Chloracne or consistent acneform disease
• Chronic B-cell leukemias
• Diabetes mellitus type 2
• Hodgkin's disease
• Hypertension
• Hypothyroidism
• Ischemic heart disease
• Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)
• Multiple myeloma
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Parkinsonism
• Parkinson's disease
• Early-onset peripheral neuropathy
• Porphyria cutanea tarda
• Prostate cancer
• Respiratory cancers of the lung, bronchus, larynx or trachea
• Soft-tissue sarcoma

Scope And Legal Distinctions

• This is a public compensation reference, not a personal eligibility or medical determination. Every row retains source-specific service, timing and activity limits.
• Location labels sometimes group places that share the same rule. Different legal pathways remain separate even when a condition or location appears more than once.
• Broad statutory cancer categories are not expanded into every pathology synonym. VA says its cancer examples are non-exhaustive. The nine named rare respiratory cancers and selected later named additions are listed separately.
• Affected C-123 unit dates and specialty codes remain in the linked VA unit table. The overall 1962-1986 span is not a blanket service window. Special Exposure Cohort designations also require the specific site, duties and duration; they are not all enumerated here.
• The changelog contains documented milestones verified in this research pass, not every historical amendment to every presumption. No later addition is asserted merely because it appeared in a proposal or regulatory agenda.
• Other presumptive programs, birth-defect benefits, health-care enrollment rules, individual exposure determinations and radiation dose-development claims are outside this table.

Current Gulf War Statute And Older Regulation Text

38 U.S.C. 1117 now permits a qualifying chronic disability to manifest to any degree at any time and adds six countries. Older limits remain printed in 38 CFR 3.317(a). The chronic-illness rows follow the current statute and VA guidance; the separate infectious-disease manifestation rules remain explicit.

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Herbicide Dates And Current Statutory Conditions

The Korean DMZ window uses September 1, 1967, and the Guam/American Samoa window ends July 31, 1980. These follow current statutes and the VA disability page. Older or inconsistent summaries were not used to narrow these dates. Statutory conditions absent from the older regulatory list are still included.

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Grouped Cancer Names Do Not Broaden Anatomical Restrictions

The anatomical category and primary diagnosis matter. A named subtype may also appear under a broader category; these rows do not establish separate payments for the same disability. Radiation and herbicide exclusions remain attached to their particular pathways.

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