Agent Orange is a highly effective herbicide, named Agent Orange because of the orange marking stripes on its container. The item contains a chemical poison called 2,4,5-T - a dioxin (dioxin, commonly known as dioxin) compounds. It was sprayed by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War by low-level, slow-flying aircraft on forests, jungles and other vegetation judged to be hiding places for armed members of the ****anist party, defoliating trees and other plants.