True, there had been a little trouble - still brewing, in fact, - over servicemen’s complaints of suffering side-effects from alleged contamination from the herbicide operationally known as Agent Orange containing deadly chemical toxic dioxin. Agent Orange was employed to defoliate the thick jungle vegetation around airfields and other US installations in South East Asia. The purpose of this being to expose enemy forces who relied on the trees for cover. It was the usual thing to see a US Army Huey UH-1D chopper in the distance spraying AO over agricultural land on the Mekong Delta and demilitarised zones. So you commonly saw great stacks of 200 litre drums of AO for US armoured personnel carriers to spray over enemy Vietnamese rice fields. Here, in Thailand, bases at Karat, Nakhon, Phanom
