Was agent orange carried on a navy ship?

Answer 1

US Sailors stationed on the gunline off the North & South Vietnamese coast are safe from the agent's effects. However, US Sailors assigned to the US Navy's Brown Water Navy might have had brushes with the agent. The Brown Water Navy's Riverine Forces which utilized the Swift Boats and PBR's, along with Alpha Boats & Monitors, operated in nearly every narrow and shallow muddy waterway in South Vietnam...as their boats COULD go there. And all of that vegetation had been subject to spraying.

The original transport of the agent was by sea, although some photographs depict 55 gallon steel drums being unloaded from what appears to be US Naval vessels. The US Military employed massive amounts of US and other nation's civilians during the war; these were then and are still called today, contract or chartered operations.

Blue Water Navy/Brown Water Navy but what about the Navy in between the two and that is the USS Repose (AH-16) and USS Sanctuary (AH-17) the two hospital ships operating off the shores of Vietnam. DaNang, Quang Tri/Hue, China Beach. We were there we were exposed to AO and we are treated like second class citizens. The corpsmen routinely were patient handlers unloading wounded Marines, Soldiers and Sailors with fresh battle wounds being exposed by contact with the uniforms and gear of those we rushed to triage and life saving doctors. There were times so many wounded came in that the ships crew were also patient handlers. Just thought I would update your history.

Answer 2

Yes, We used it to make a dispenser for a helicopter

Answer 3

Kitty hawk

Answer 4

USS White Plains AFS-4