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 [[File:'Ranch Hand' run.jpg|thumb|right|A defoliant run during the Vietnam War, part of Operation Ranch Hand.]]
-Beginning in 1962 during the [[Vietnam War]], the Chemical Corps operated a program that would become known as [[Operation Ranch Hand]]. Ranch Hand was a [[herbicidal warfare]] program which used [[herbicide]]s and [[defoliants]] such as [[Agent Orange]].<ref name=neilands>Neilands, J. B. "Vietnam: Progress of the Chemical War," ([https://www.jstor.org/stable/2642575 JSTOR]), ''Asian Survey'', Vol. 10, No. 3. (Mar., 1970), pp. 209–229. Retrieved 14 October 2007.</ref> The chemicals were color-coded based on what compound they contained. The U.S. and its allies officially argued that herbicides and defoliants fell outside the definition of "chemical weapons", since these substances were not designed to [[asphyxiate]] or [[poison]] humans, but to destroy plants which provided cover or concealment to the enemy.
+Beginning in 1962 during the Vietnam War, the Chemical Corps operated a program that would become known as [[Operation Ranch Hand]]. Ranch Hand was a [[herbicidal warfare]] program which used [[herbicide]]s and [[defoliants]] such as [[Agent Orange]].<ref name=neilands>Neilands, J. B. "Vietnam: Progress of the Chemical War," ([https://www.jstor.org/stable/2642575 JSTOR]), ''Asian Survey'', Vol. 10, No. 3. (Mar., 1970), pp. 209–229. Retrieved 14 October 2007.</ref> The chemicals were color-coded based on what compound they contained. The U.S. and its allies officially argued that herbicides and defoliants fell outside the definition of "chemical weapons", since these substances were not designed to [[asphyxiate]] or [[poison]] humans, but to destroy plants which provided cover or concealment to the enemy.
 The Chemical Corps continued to support U.S. forces through the use of [[incendiary weapons]], such as [[napalm]], and [[riot control]] measures, among other missions. As the war progressed into the late 1960s, public sentiment against the Chemical Corps increased because of the Army's continued use of herbicides, criticized in the press as being against the Geneva Protocol; napalm; and riot control agents.<ref name="mauroni" />