Health and Disability

For me, the biggest failure was not the exposure of troops to chemicals in the first instance, because war is inherently dangerous, and all battlefields have hazards,” Carter says. “But DOD had a system to collect data about exposures, and it did nothing with it. It never analyzed the data, it never got back to troops, it never handed it over to the VA so they could do something with it.” 

There was a “whole system” put into place after Agent Orange revelations in Vietnam.

That it was not examined or followed-up on, Carter adds, “is tantamount to military malpractice.”