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A Korea-U.S. joint investigation team collects soil samples near U.S. Camp Carroll in South Korea's southeastern county of Chilgok, in which three U.S. veterans recently insisted a huge amount of Agent Orange was buried in the late 1970s. The veterans, who were stationed at the base at the time, recently claimed on a U.S. TV program that their unit buried hundreds of drums of leftover Agent Orange on the base in 1978. The highly toxic chemical, used widely as a defoliant during the Vietnam War, can cause serious health problems, including cancer and birth defects. (Yonhap)
It is good to see that USFK is taking the soil samples around Camp Carroll and judging by this picture they have a lot of Korean media watching the samples being taken. Hopefully Korean authorities will also be the ones to analyze and publish whatever the results are from these soil samples in order to give them further creditability and build public confidence that the soil around the camp is safe from agent orange.
9:01 pm on May 31st, 2011 1
Hmm, well. This is just right up my alley of expertise, having prepared and analyzed literally thousands of soil and rock samples at one time in my life. By the looks of “protective gear” they are wearing and the fact the media was allowed to stand so darned close to the samples and the sight from which they were gathered (they should block off the area, not just because of possible contamination but also to prevent the samples from being tampered with), they don’t seem to expect to find anything more than traces, if anything at all.
10:43 pm on May 31st, 2011 2
Darned typos.