Agent Orange 'tested in Okinawa'

Documents indicate jungle use in 1962

Recently uncovered documents show that the United States conducted top-secret tests of Agent Orange in Okinawa in 1962, according to a veterans services employee.

The experiments, believed to have taken place under the auspices of Project AGILE — a classified program to research unconventional warfare techniques — have also been confirmed by a former high-ranking American official.

The documents, which include a ship's logbook, army deployment orders and declassified government records, were tracked down by Michelle Gatz, a veterans service officer in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.

 May 2012

5^th Annual Run for the Fallen

The North Carolina Chapter of Honor and Remember will be sponsoring The 5^th Annual Run for the Fallen on Saturday, May 19, 2012 to honor the 178 troops from North Carolina who have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom since March 2001. Runners and walkers are invited to run/walk one or more miles to honor our fallen heroes. The run will be held at the Ayden-Grifton High School track, Highway 11 south, Ayden NC, starting at 9 AM.

Prime Clinic phone number has changed

As part of our Friendly Phones initiative, we are starting the process of having all of our Primary Care patients call their Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) directly instead of going through Telephone Care via option 5 on our current main switchboard menu. 

The PACT-Prime team located on 1D is the first to make this transition!  Please note the NEW NUMBER below for patients assigned to PACT-Prime to use as their main number for their calls.

Remember the guy who wouldn't take the flag down?

You might remember a news story several months ago about a crotchety old man who defied his homeowners association and refused to take down the flagpole on his property and the large flag that flew on it. Now you can find out who, exactly, that old man was.

On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg, MS -- probably didn't make much news back then. Twenty-five years later, on May 23,1944, near Carano, Italy, Van T. Barfoot, who had enlisted in the US Army in 1940, set out to flank German machine gun positions from which fire was coming down on his fellow soldiers. He advanced through a minefield, took out three enemy machine gun positions and returned with 17 prisoners of war.

Region 3 Updates - June 2012

It has been a very busy spring. As a member of the Finance Committee I attended the annual budget preparation meeting the first weekend in March. As usual, the wish list greatly exceeded our projected revenue and we had to do some serious cutting. We emerged with a balanced budget for FY 13 (3-1-12 thru 2-29-13) which the Board of Directors BOD) passed at the April 20-21, 2012 meeting in Silver Spring, MD. We aren’t going to be flush with money this year – our projected revenues are down, and a lot of Departments and Committees didn’t get everything they wanted, but we are still in good financial shape.