Battalion Tracking Study Files

The agency created and maintained these files in conjunction with a major study of the exposure of U.S. Army personnel to Agent Orange during the Vietnamese Conflict, conducted in accordance with the Veterans Health Programs Extension and Improvements Act of 1979 (Public Law 96-151) and the Veterans Health Care, Training and Small Business Loan Act of 1981 (Public Law 97-72). The agency abstracted daily locations (at the company level) from various paper military records and supplied the c oded data to the project lead, the Centers for Disease Control.

This series contains data for 48 U.S. Army ground combat battalions that were located in III Corps during the Vietnamese Conflict. Each record includes the report date; researchers' initials; source document identifier; recording date; battalion identifier; and time, unit, location, and coordinates from each source document entry. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC).