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Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam Final Report (2003) / Chapter Skim
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... The approach has permitted the development of a database of locations of about 80°/O of all Army troops, most Air Force personnel, and Navy personnel assigned to construction battalions or permanent installations and calculation of exposure opportunity and hit scores for them.
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... Development of a GIS for Vietnam into which were placed extensive databases, such as the HERBS file of spraying missions, an exposure table of hits and exposure-opportunity scores, military-unit identification codes, and military locations. Design ant!
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