How is agent orange spread?

Answer 1

Agent Orange (along with Agents Purple, Blue, White, Pink, and Green) was used heavily and most notably during the Vietnam War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange Agent Orange (along with Agents Purple, Blue, White, Pink, and Green) was used heavily and most notably during the Vietnam War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

Answer 2

Agent Orange is a defoliant used in combat zones, the purpose of this chemical was to remove leaves from trees in order to seek enemy hiding. The noxious chemical contributes to defects in health of soldiers, some of the symptoms received by soldiers are: blistering, itching, birth defects, cancer, lung disease amd other organ failures. By General Collin Maddock AKA Yr10 girl in Hurlstone Agriculturak High School

Answer 3

The chemical Agent Orange was sprayed from airplanes to spread it across the forests of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Over 20 million gallons was sprayed in over 6,000 missions under Operation Ranch Hand.

Answer 4

All the herbicides used in Operation Ranch Hand had a color name. The manufacturers shipped them in 55-gallon steel drums with a colored stripe painted on them to make it easy to pick the one you needed for the mission at hand, and this particular herbicide had an orange stripe. Hence, Agent Orange.

As to why they picked the color orange for this product...they had to use a color and they picked one at random. They could have as easily picked any other color.

Answer 5

Agent Orange, also called napalm, was a chemical defoliant sprayed on the crops and vegetation by the U.S. military to eliminate forest cover for the Viet Cong and to destroy the crops that fed them. Agent Orange caused many health issues for returning U.S. military, as well as the Vietnamese population.

Answer 6

It is dropped by aircraft and spread with winds.

Answer 7

To defoliate the jungle in order to deny cover and concealment to the NVA and NLF.

Answer 8

Agent Orange use took place mainly in Vietnam. It was designed to defoliate trees so the Vietcong could not use the jungle as cover.

Answer 9

NO