Agent Orange Was Bigger Than Vietnam — Korea and Thailand's Forgotten Veterans

The Agent Orange story didn't end in Vietnam. Tens of thousands of veterans who served along the Korean DMZ and at Air Force bases across Thailand were exposed to the same toxic chemicals — and spent decades being denied benefits because the VA said their service locations didn't count. In 1978, a young Army heavy equipment operator named Steve House buried hundreds of barrels labeled "Province of Vietnam, Compound Orange" in a ditch at Camp Carroll, South Korea. He said nothing about it for thirty-three years. When he finally came forward, a joint investigation found dioxin and chemical contamination exactly where he described. The story kicked off a firestorm — and helped force a reckoning that was sixty years overdue. This is the full story: the Korean DMZ defoliation program, the Thailand Air Force bases, the VA's decades of denial, and the fight that finally ended in 2022 with the PACT Act. CHAPTERS 0:00 — Cold Open: Camp Carroll, 1978 1:33 — Chapter 1: The War Nobody Named 6:11 — Chapter 2: The Other Theater 9:39 — Chapter 3: What It Does 11:58 — Chapter 4: The Paperwork War 15:53 — Chapter 5: Voodoo Land 19:04 — Chapter 6: What Changed 22:28 — Closing 24:43 — Leslie Loves Me!