Neither the Navy nor the Department of Veterans Affairs has a comprehensive list of which ships went where during the Vietnam War. As a result, veterans themselves often have to prove their ships served in areas where Agent Orange was sprayed.
How does one tell the untraumatized majority about the conditions that constitute the underworld of trauma?
Vet courts, like drug courts, treat the underlying factors for first-time offenders.
The VA still can't calculate the costs soldiers pay for their wounds.