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Originally Posted by katepoet
My husband has hearing loss, PTSD, diabetes, arthritis, etc. all service related. After almost 40 years he is finally going to have an agent orange tox screen.
Who did your husband serve with?
Please tell him we said "Welcome Home!" and "Thank you."
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If your husband was in Vietnam, then it is assumed that he was exposed to agent orange and is entitiled to disability from the VA for the diabetes (you probably already know that). Anyway, my husband didn't have to take the tox screen, we just had to fill out all the paperwork to get him qualified for disability. Thankfully, he escaped the PTSD.
I don't know who he served in Vietnam with - but he was at a rest and recuperation station on the south china sea, near Na Trang I believe, where he served as a personnel clerk - he processed people in and out as they took their leave.
He acquired rheumatic fever while he was in basic training, so when they sent him to Vietnam, thankfully, he had a desk job, rather than being out in the jungle.