24TH MECH INF DIV OPERATION DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT

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Subject: 24TH MECH INF DIV OPERATION DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT    

Box  ID: BX001437

Document Number:          2

Folder Title: 24 MECH INF DIV AFTER ACTION REPORT                                                             

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Unit: 24TH ID     

Parent Organzation: XVIII CORPS 






                                    UNCLASSIFIED
                                                                    05/30/91
                                  JULLS LONG REPORT

          1. (U) JULLS NUMBER: 52058-57073 (00008), submitted by DIV
          CHEMICAL, 24 ID, 870-5516, (912)767-5516.

          2. (U) No type OPN DESERT STORM NOTES conducted by 24 IN DIV (MECH)
          on 05/20/91.

          3. (U) KEYWORDS: CHEMICAL, NBC,

          4. (U) TITLE: CHEMICAL AGENT PERSISTENCY

          5. (U) OBSERVATION: Incomplete doctrinal guidelines for use of
          the chemical agent persistency charts.

          6. (U) DISCUSSION: Doctrine only discusses using the current
          weather data at time of attack to predict chemical agent
          persistency times. This is not the most accurate way to predict
          persistency times for chemical agents that will remain for many
          hours to days, especially in environments such as Saudi Arabia
          and Iraq where we experienced drastic changes in weather
          conditions over the course of a day.

          7. (U) LESSON LEARNED: If the chemical agent employed is
          expected to persist many hours to days, the best method for
          predicting chemical agent persistency times is by using a daily
          mean temperature and wind speed.

          8. (U) RECOMMENDED ACTION: Incorporate procedures into FM 3-4
          (NBC Protection) which discuss the use of daily mean temperature
          and wind speed to predict persistency times. A sample procedure
          is as follows: Determine a preliminary persistency time using
          the current temperature and windspeed. If the preliminary
          persistency time is greater than 6 hours and the weather
          conditions are predicted to change drastically over the course
          of the day, use a daily mean temperature and wind speed to
          predict the persistency time.

          9. (U) COMMENTS: We will forward a copy of this AAR comment to
 the USACMLS for their review.



              (U) SUBJECT: OPERATIONS

              (U) INTEROPERABILITY: DOCTRINE

              (U) Lesson distributed by: 24TH IN DIV.









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