ABC7 5/10/2011 - Family claims Army sprayed Agent Orange at Fort Detrick

One cancer-stricken family says the Army sprayed the chemical Agent Orange at Fort Detrick years ago. They believe the testing caused so many of their family members' deaths.

Even after fifty years, Steve Koehl still remembers the helicopter that flew overhead when he was ten years old, riding his bike outside Fort Detrick.

“It flew right over, and all of a sudden, I don't know what it was, dust or something that was over my shirt and pants and stuff,” Koehl said.

It happened at least five other times, he says. Koehl now suspects Agent Orange was being sprayed.

“I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and they say that's generally caused by Agent Orange,” he said. For ten month, Koehl, now 61, has been battling blood cancer. Koehl's doctor says the man’s cancer could be fatal.