Camp Crockett was established in late 1967 on the Fort Gordon, Georgia, federal reservation for the training of soldiers preparatory to Airborne and Special Forces schools during the

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set up to look like one that would be encountered in

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.Richard Rogers: Special Assignment: Agent Orange at Fort Gordon, Part 1, News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, November 18, 2010, https://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Special_Investigation_Agent_Orange_In_Augusta_Part_1_109038429.html, Posted: Thu 6:54 PM, Nov 18, 2010 , Updated: Wed 4:25 PM, Jun 08, 2011, last accessed 28 Oct 2018.Richard Rogers: Special Assignment: Agent Orange at Fort Gordon, Part 2, News 12 at 11 o'clock, Thursday, November 18, 2010, https://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Special_Assignment_Agent_Orange_at_Fort_Gordon_Part_2_109050469.html, Posted: Thu 11:15 PM, Nov 18, 2010 , Updated: Wed 4:24 PM, Jun 08, 2011, last accessed 28 Oct 2018.Richard Rogers: Special Assignment: Agent Orange at Fort Gordon, Part 3, WRDW News 12 at 6 o'clock / Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, https://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Special_Assignment_Agent_Orange_at_Fort_Gordon_Part_3_134410493.html, Posted: Wed 6:00 PM, Nov 23, 2011, Updated: Mon 3:00 PM, May 06, 2013. Soldiers training at the camp were housed in

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s, one of which served as a

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.Richard Rogers: Special Assignment: Agent Orange at Fort Gordon, Part 2, News 12 at 11 o'clock, Thursday, November 18, 2010, https://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Special_Assignment_Agent_Orange_at_Fort_Gordon_Part_2_109050469.html, Posted: Thu 11:15 PM, Nov 18, 2010 , Updated: Wed 4:24 PM, Jun 08, 2011, last accessed 28 Oct 2018.Richard Rogers: Special Assignment: Agent Orange at Fort Gordon, Part 3, WRDW News 12 at 6 o'clock / Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, https://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Special_Assignment_Agent_Orange_at_Fort_Gordon_Part_3_134410493.html, Posted: Wed 6:00 PM, Nov 23, 2011, Updated: Mon 3:00 PM, May 06, 2013. Abandoned in 1969, the locations of the

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slabs in a pine forest planted as part of a

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project instituted in 1970.Richard Rogers: Special Assignment: Agent Orange at Fort Gordon, Part 2, News 12 at 11 o'clock, Thursday, November 18, 2010, https://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Special_Assignment_Agent_Orange_at_Fort_Gordon_Part_2_109050469.html, Posted: Thu 11:15 PM, Nov 18, 2010 , Updated: Wed 4:24 PM, Jun 08, 2011, last accessed 28 Oct 2018.Richard Rogers: Special Assignment: Agent Orange at Fort Gordon, Part 3, WRDW News 12 at 6 o'clock / Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, https://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Special_Assignment_Agent_Orange_at_Fort_Gordon_Part_3_134410493.html, Posted: Wed 6:00 PM, Nov 23, 2011, Updated: Mon 3:00 PM, May 06, 2013. In 2010, news reports indicated that Agent Orange herbicide was applied by

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to 98 acres of Training Area 47 in July 1967 prior to the establishment of Camp Crockett.Richard Rogers: Special Assignment: Agent Orange at Fort Gordon, Part 3, WRDW News 12 at 6 o'clock / Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, https://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Special_Assignment_Agent_Orange_at_Fort_Gordon_Part_3_134410493.html, Posted: Wed 6:00 PM, Nov 23, 2011, Updated: Mon 3:00 PM, May 06, 2013.

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