CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Chemical barrels recently unearthed on former
U.S. military land on Okinawa most likely contained military maintenance
shop and hospital waste, not Agent Orange as many feared, according to
an American expert on the herbicide.
About two dozen rusted Dow Chemical Company barrels found under a
soccer field in Okinawa City appear to be part of a former landfill used
by Kadena Air Base for solvents as well as burnt plastic and other
waste, according to Alvin Young, a retired Air Force colonel and
Department of Defense consultant who has studied tactical herbicides for
30 years.
Young, who assisted with a military investigation of similar Agent
Orange claims at U.S. bases in South Korea in 2011, reviewed soil test
data from the Japan Ministry of Defense and Okinawa City at the request
of Stars and Stripes.
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