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Appendix B: History and Sampling of C-123s in the United States After Spraying Herbicides in Vietnam
Pages 91-99

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From page 91...
... ; 315th TAW (Vietnam, no Sold to Royal Thai Air date) ; Vietnam Air Force (1971)
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From page 92...
... ; 315th TAW (Vietnam, no Sold to Philippines Air date) ; Vietnam Air Force (no date)
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From page 93...
... ; retired from service 1986 55-4570 12th SOS and 311th SOS (Vietnam, 1968–1969) ; 315th Royal Thai Air Force TAW (Vietnam, no date)
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From page 94...
... ABBREVIATIONS: ABW, Air Base Wing; ACG, Air Commando Group; ACS, Air Commando Squadron; ACW, Air Command Wing; ADTC, Armament Development and Test Center (Eglin Air Force Base, FL) ; AFB, Air Force base; AFLC, Air Force Logistic Command (Hayes Aircraft Facility, Napier Field, Dothan, AL)
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From page 95...
... (to determine the 1 Paint Scraping from cargo tie-down rings (& 1 residue wing was malathion source of bad odors) sample lost)
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From page 96...
... TABLE B-2 Continued 96 Date Event Plane Sampling Other 09/13/1995 Sampling -- Wright- "Patches" 49 surface wipes (TCDD) WESTON Laboratories Patterson AFB Composite A2: (ng/m2 measurements Museum Annex 0 ng/600 cm2 from UC = 123K (sampling done by Interior Front Port Sampling and Analysis OHM Remediation Composite A3: Plan, February 2009)
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From page 97...
... . Swipes collected on moist Whatman glass Regeneration of service in filters from 6 × 6 areas "of the floor located under the spray line Group (AMARG -- Operation Ranch caps" and "inside the spray line" formerly AMARC)
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From page 98...
... had trace levels of dioxin/furans µg/wipe 1996) on interior floor locations (max 3.9 ng/m2 TEQ [risk-based (RH according to screening level value, 23 ng/m2]
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From page 99...
... ; MASDC, Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center; nd, not detected; PCDD, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin; PCDF, polychlorinated dibenzofuran; RH, Ranch Hand; TCDD, 2,3,7,8-trichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin; TEQ, Toxicity Equivalency Quotient; USAF, United States Air Force; USEPA, United States Environmental Protection Agency. AMARG refers to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, often called The Boneyard, is a US Air Force aircraft and missile storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
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  • regeneration center
  • tactical air
  • troop carrier
  • air commando
  • special operations

  • monthan air
  • amarg refers
  • inside spray
  • force aircraft
  • logistic command

  • level value
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  • mai museum
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