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This document is a captured Iraqi military record.
It is provided in its original form to include Iraqi
classification markings (i.e. Top Secret, Secret, etc.).
These classification markings are NOT U.S. Government markings.
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[page-78]
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Top Secret
Medical Treatment Command of Second Division
Number \ branch 5\ 29\ 2014
Date: 29 December 1985
[seal]: Headquarters of Field Medical Unit \ 31
Confidential
Number: chemical, 3660
Date: 12\30\1985
To: field medical unit \ 43
Subject: chemical awareness
Top secret letter of command of corps 2 number 7082 on 27 December 1985,
and following our top secret letter number 1930 on 16 December 1985,
the first day of each month shall be designated chemical awareness day and activities stated in
attached supplement A shall be conducted.
Please acquaint and take the necessary measures.
Enclosure
1- supplement A
[hand notation]: chemical guide, to acquaint and set a procedure for implementation accordingly,
and provide me a copy of the letter, [signed] 12\30\1985
[signed] 12\30
[signed]
Lieutenant Colonel, M.D.
Abdulkareem Hassan al-Faris
Medical Treatment Commanding Officer of Second Division
ar ta
Zuheer Azeez Jumah
a copy to:
field medical unit \ 31: for the same above purpose, attached is an authenticated copy of our
referred to letter. Enclosures: 1 supplement A, 1 letter
[page-79]
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Confidential
Medical Treatment Command of the Twelfth Armored Division
Number \ command 2\ 23\ 4370
Date: 26 December 1985
[seal]: Headquarters of Field Medical Unit \ 31
Confidential
Number: chemical \ 3643
Date: 12\27\1985
To: field medical unit \ 31, 32, 33
Subject: protective suits
Confidential letter of chemical branch directorate number 12627 on 2 November 1985 relayed to
us through confidential letter of chemical branch command of corps 6 number 1038 on
12\15\1985 and relayed to us through confidential letter of chemical branch command of armored
division 12 number 537 on 12\22\1985. Please provide us with your needs of protective suits (
) for members of chemical reconnaissance and the consumed numbers which have not been
replaced yet in order to request issuing from retreats, advise.
[hand notation]: chemical guide, [signed] 12\28\1985
[signed]
Lieutenant Colonel, Dentist
Emad Taqi Hadi
Medical Treatment Commanding Officer of the Twelfth Armored Division
Major, Dentist
Mohammed Shuwaish Abduallah
[page-80]
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Confidential
Headquarters of Field Medical Unit \ 31
Number: chemical \
Date:
To: medical treatment command of armored division 12
Subject: reply
Your confidential letter number 4370 on 21 December 1985,
there is no ( ) protective suit in our holding due to the lack of chemical reconnaissance members
in our unit.
Please acquaint.
[signed]
[hand notations]: chemical guide, to act accordingly and advise
[page 81]
From: Command of the medical unit/ 12th armored division
Number: qaf i/ 19 / 4126
Date: 12/20/1985
To: field medical units, 31 / 32 / 33
Subject: true copy
Enclosed is a true copy of the confidential letter of the operations command / the 12th armored
division, # 12945, dated december 15,1985. Please take the appropriate steps.
Signed:
lt. Colonel (dentist)
Imad Taqi Hadi
Commander of the 12th Armored Division
Major (MD)
Ali Hasan Hayawi
Margin note: chemical guide - please see me regarding this letter.
[page 82]
Secret and Urgent
Initiation Time:
Initiation Date: November 31
From: Medical Unit of the 2nd Division
To: 31st Air Artillery Unit and 43rd Air Artillery Unit
Originator
Number: 2847 qaf sad
This is the text of the confidential letter of the 2nd division, number 7761, dated 29 december,
which was addressed to the director of the chemical unit of the 2nd division. Start. Please place
the focus in the training courses on the training of officers on the use of individualized first aid
and disinfection techniques. End of letter.
Signed: (1) Lt. Colonel (MD)
Abd Al-karim Hasan Al-faris
Commander of the 2nd Division Medical Unit.
(2) Major (MD)
Zuhair Aziz Gum'a
Margin note: to all officers and physicians
the chemical guide
to develop training courses for all officers and
physicians as of January 2, 1986
[page 83]
TOP SECRET
D - The work (service) of the advanced dressing station is to treat those individuals who have
suffered ordinary injuries, or injured individuals who have been disinfected at the medical unit,
or those who have shown symptoms of the chemical agent effect, and were disinfected and
handled at the unit (squad). Those whose health condition permits should be returned to the
front, otherwise they should be transferred to military hospitals by means of ambulances from
the corps medical unit.
Certain poisonous symptoms of the chemical agent might appear on certain fighters at the
disinfection points which have been opened (set-up) by the chemical company. In this case,
they should be moved, after having them disinfected, to the advanced dressing station.
E - The corp's medical unit will allocate (provide) the needed medical facilities (beds), in
collaboration with the general headquarters, to receive the losses resulting from this chemical
attack, and will specify the hospitals which will handle these cases, in order to provide
specialized medical services, to acquire experience, avoid the negatives and maintain moral.
[page-84]
Plan for the Opening of a Detachment for Disinfecting and Treatment of
Contaminated Injuries
Key:
1. Contaminated area.
2. Bandaging tent.
3. Receiving tent.
4. Entry for contaminated wheels.
5. Clothes removing tent.
6. Washing.
7. Preparation tent from evacuation and covering the injured with [illegible]
sheets.
8. Clean area.
9. Direction of dominant wind.
10. Evacuation tent.
11. Clean wheels from the advanced bandaging station.
12. To the advanced bandaging station.
13. Advanced bandaging station.
14. The main evacuation axis.
15. Top Secret.
[page-85]
Top Secret
Sequence of Evacuation of Casualties in The Field
When The Chemical Attack Occurs
Key:
1. Non-contaminated injuries.
2. Contaminated injuries.
3. Control.
4. Unit Aid Post.
5. Location of loss collection.
6. Detachment of disinfecting and treatment of contaminated injuries.
A.The following is done in the unit aid post:
1. Disinfecting and treating the cases that fighters did not conduct the
disinfecting and individual aid.
2. Completing the treatment in the case the symptoms did not disappear after
the fighter had used the contents of the individual disinfecting and aid
kit.
3. Administer resuscitation and provide oxygen to those cases that require
it.
4. Treatment and bandaging of the wounds, and filling out field cards, and
marking the cards of those who are contaminated.
5. Treatment of the non-contaminated cases that require life saving. These
are treated the same way as the contaminated injuries with regard to
evacuation.
After That the contaminated and the chemical injuries are evacuated which are
[illegible] by the dominant medical unit in the field.
B.The losses are evacuated after decontaminating the detachment to the
advanced bandaging station after they are wrapped with [illegible] sheets.
The completion of the treatment is attempted in the advanced bandaging
station.
[page-85 a]
Key:
1. Advanced Bandaging Station
2. Field Surgery Unit
3. Military hospitals and tactical line hospitals designated to treat
contaminated injuries.
4. Hospitals or sections of military hospitals designated to receive chemical
injuries and the contaminated patients who have been disinfected.
5. Top Secret.
6. x / Akram.
7. The first and second batch of non-contaminated injuries are evacuated to
the field surgery unit if it was opened.
8. The field surgery unit is to remain clean, and receives only the clean
injuries (non-contaminated).
9. The injuries that do not require evacuation to the hospital are discharged
to their units, or they can be detained according to their conditions.
10. The injuries that were disinfected are evacuated after wrapping them with
[illegible] sheets to the hospital that was designated to receive the
contaminated injuries as follows:
2nd Corps - Bacoba Military Hospital
Kut Military Hospital
Jlola Military Hospital
3rd Corps and Shat al Arab Operations - Basra Military Hospital
4th Corps and Eastern Dajla Operations - Amara Military Hospital for
emergencies and Hay al- Hussein Youth Center.
[page-86]
Top Secret
Sixth:The non-contaminated injuries are evacuated in first aid vehicles
shown above (First) to the location of loss collection, and from there to
the advanced bandaging station.
Seventh: Martyrs are evacuated with lower priority to the martyr reception
center of the division.
Eighth: Those who are contaminated but not injured who do not exhibit the
symptoms of a poisonous chemical agent, where these will be disinfected
after the temporary evacuation. It is known that the unit members must
continue fighting wearing safety equipment and using the individual
disinfecting kit until the temporary evacuation or until orders are received
from higher commands.
C. The following is conducted in the detachment for disinfecting and treating
contaminated injuries:
First: Receiving the contaminated injuries who are hit with poisonous
chemical agents who exhibit symptoms of chemical agent effects.
Second: Administering disinfecting and treatment according to the working
policies of the detachment.
Third: Evacuating the injuries after disinfecting and treating them to the
advanced bandaging station, and returning those whose conditions allow to
their units to continue their fighting duties.
Fourth: All contaminated are delivered in the reception section of the
detachment, and then stacked in nylon bags and sent to the chemical platoon
for deal with.
Evacuation of the injured from the detachment to the advanced
bandaging station is performed using [illegible] sheets.
Fifth: First aid vehicles are disinfected in the detachment before they are
returned forward, using the vehicle disinfecting apparatus provided to the
field medical units.
Sixth: The evacuation of martyrs who die on their way is conducted by
evacuating them to the detachment or from the detachment to the martyr
reception center of the division.
Top Secret
[page-87]
In the Name of God The Merciful The Compassionate
Top Secret
The Command
The 12th Armored Division
General Staff
(Operations) 12945
No. /H2/25/1969/ --
Date 15th/Dec./1985
To/ List (B)........
Subject / report
Top secret memo of the 6th Corps 16793 on Dec./1985.
In light of the application of the Chemical Awareness week in the period from
23rd Nov. to 28th Nov. and the report rejected by the commander of [illegible]
Chemical corps based on the divisions reports. The following will be
implemented:
1. The Chemical Awareness Week initiative will be repeated in the Corps
sector.
2. Designate one day of the month to be called the chemical awareness day in
all divisions that conduct chemical activities, and inform us of the date.
3. Increase the number of seminars to examine ways of protection against
weapons of mass destruction in the formations and divisions, and prepare
alternative individuals to substitute for the chemical counselor in the
battalion/Regiment, and the alternate [illegible] chemical officer in the
brigade.
4. Encourage commanders to directly supervise chemical training and implement
safety measures in the unit, and conduct regular examinations by the
headquarters to supervise the level of the subordinate units in the training
and chemical awareness to diagnose areas of weakness and rectify them.
Staff Lieutenant Colonel
Ghazi Jassem Laftah
acting / Commander of the 12th Armored Division
Copy to\
Chemical Branch Command 12th Armored Division / Please make necessary
recommendations and specify the chemical awareness day.
Secret Headquarters 12th Armored Division / for the same above purpose
al Harb Newspaper
(1-1) Exact Copy
Top Secret Conscript Private
Mathloum Abdul Jabbar
[page-88]
Top Secret
I. The Corps Medical Commander will (if situation necessitates) place the
reserve field medical unit to open the detachment of disinfecting and
treatment of contaminated injuries and the advanced bandaging station to
support each medical field dominant unit.
K. The Corps Medical will be supported by aid vehicles, individuals,
equipment, and medication from the general headquarters locations.
L. The Division and the Corps medical commander will be in close contact
with his counterpart in the chemical branch and will cooperate and
coordinate among them.
3. The sequence of evacuation and the way to deal with losses:
A. Evacuation to the unit aid post will take place in the usual manner and
using the usual media which include:
First: Stretcher carriers.
Second: The regular aid vehicles and armored aid carriers.
Third: [illegible] that are present in the area.
B. The following will take place in the unit aid location:
First: Designate a number of vehicles to transport non-contaminated
injuries.
Second: Designate the rest of the vehicles to transport the contaminated
injuries, and these vehicles are marked.
Third: The contaminated injuries will be separated from the
non-contaminated ones by the doctor of the unit aid location, and with the
help of trained elements and with the knowledge of the sub unit of the
injured, where the unit aid location doctor knows about which units were
exposed to chemical attacks and which were not.
Fourth: Possible first aid is administered to contaminated and
non-contaminated injuries and to those who were hit by chemical agents.
Those whose conditions do not require evacuation are returned to the front.
Fifth: The contaminated injuries and those hit by poisonous chemical
agents are evacuated by aid vehicles shown above in (Second) according to
the priority of their medical conditions. they are taken to the detachment
for disinfecting and treatment of the contaminated injuries, and their field
cards are marked to indicate that they are contaminated.
Top Secret
[page-89]
In The Name of God The Compassionate The Merciful
Secret
Headquarters_Field Medical Unit / 31
Number/Chemical/4712
Date: 30th Dec. 1985
To- The Medical Division Command
Subject - Answer
Your secret memo 4370 on 26th of Dec 1985
We do not possess protective suit ( L1) because we do not have any chemical
reconnaissance elements. Please review.
(Signature)
Medical Captain
Munib Adel Khattab
sub / Commander of medial unit / 31
File (handwritten)
secret
[page-90]
Top Secret
Sequence of medical work when the chemical attack occurs
1. Duties of medical when chemical attack occurs
A. Disinfect and treat contaminated injuries.
B. Disinfect and treat chemical injuries.
C. Treatment of the disinfected chemical injuries that are referred by
the open disinfecting stations and activities by the chemical branch.
D. Treatment of the psychological cases that may appear when the chemical
attack occurs.
2. Sequence of tasks;
A. At the time when the adversary chemical attack occurs and when the doctor
at the unit aid location receives the chemical warning signal, all members of
the unit medical location wear protective masks and everyone takes safety
precautions.
B. The unit aid location doctor receives from the headquarters of the unit
information regarding the type of chemical agent that was used based on the
initial observer's report.
C. If the unit aid location is within the contaminated area, members of
the location will perform individual disinfecting using the individual aid and
disinfecting kit as soon as contamination is felt.
D. The unit aid location is prepared to receive losses.
E. The commander of the medical division receives information about the
chemical attack from the division headquarters, and at the same time informs
the formation field medical unit by the formation headquarters that a chemical
attack took place and the type of bombs used.
F. The field dominant medical unit of the unit that suffered the chemical
attack will [illegible] a complete medical section from the section of the
loss collection and treatment platoon to support the medical effort of
the unit.
G. The field medical unit sends forward all aid vehicles of the loss
collection and treatment platoon to the unit aid location to be ready to
evacuate injuries.
H. The detachment of disinfecting and treatment of contaminated injuries as
well as the advanced bandaging station that are opened by the medical field
unit will get ready to receive losses.
I. The commander of the medical division will support the field medical unit
with aid vehicles, medical effort, and equipment from other field medical
units that are under his command.
Top Secret
[page-91]
Top Secret
8. When the formation headquarters receive news about the chemical attack, the
chemical staff officer will perform a simple assessment procedure to determine
the units which may be exposed to the danger of the chemical cloud and warning
them to take the safety precautions.
9. The chemical reconnaissance detachment of the chemical platoon of the
brigade are ordered to go to the location of the attack for reconnaissance and
to determine the magnitude of contamination and to make sure which agent was
used.
10. The brigade headquarters informs the field medical unit of the situation
and the kind of agent used.
11. After receiving the reconnaissance report, the chemical staff officer will
perform a detailed situation assessment and provide advice.
12. The Division headquarters is informed of the chemical situation, the
precautions that were taken, and the effects of the chemical attack on the
situation in general in order to take decisions and carry on the needed
procedures, whether the area hit needs to be evacuated or not depending on the
type of contamination and the losses suffered and the moral situation.
13. The unit continues fighting wearing the safety equipment until there is a
moment of calm or until the situation clears up. Then the unit performs full
or partial disinfecting using the means available to it and according to the
time available, and depending on whether the poisonous chemical agent is of
the stable type or not. Or The unit withdraws to the rear for disinfecting in
the disinfecting points that the chemical platoon opens if the situation
requires ( tactical decision).
14. If the size of troops that were contaminated is large, the brigade is then
supported by a chemical effort from the chemical company of the division.
Top Secret
[page-92]
Top Secret
The Sequence of Tasks when a Chemical Attack at The Unit Level
1. Following a chemical attack or when poisonous chemical agents are suspected
to be present from simple evidence, an chemical signal is given to the letter
writer [illegible] according to [illegible] in the second sequences of work
for the unit. The unit is informed of this via tele communications and
non-tele communications in order to adopt safety precautions and to warn other
sub units and side units which are located downwind to be able to take safety
measures.
2. The chemical counselor is dispatched to the location of the attack by order
from the unit headquarters reconnaissance and detection of the poisonous agent
used employing the special tools available (chemical reconnaissance kit).
When [illegible] that the attack and upon determination of the type of
poisonous chemical agent used he informs the unit headquarters, and an initial
reconnaissance report is prepared (Chemical [illegible] form -1)
3. The unit headquarters then informs the formation headquarters about the
regular chemical attack and the initial reconnaissance report is then sent to
the formation headquarters. The unit doctor is informed by the unit
headquarters of the type of poisonous chemical agent used to determine the
treatment needed.
4. Individuals who are contaminated with poisonous chemical agents liquids
conduct disinfecting using the individual aid and disinfecting kit upon
feeling the contamination. The use of the kit is obsolete if its use was
delayed ten minutes.
5. Some of the chemical injuries occur to [illegible] individuals which
requires individual aid using the individual aid and disinfecting kit upon
appearance of symptoms of a poisonous chemical agent. The symptoms of mustard
injury appears after 8-10 hours after contamination occurs. The symptoms of
Nerve agents however, appear during the first minutes of contamination in the
injury occurs through the skin. If the injury is through the respiratory
system symptoms appear faster, in which case [illegible] is used
instantaneously when exposed or when symptoms appear.
6. Some injuries require medical treatment and therefore they must be
evacuated to the unit aid location.
7. Contaminated injuries are evacuated to the unit aid location and separated
according of the severity if injury, and then real injuries are treated.
Intermediate and severe injuries are evacuated to the advanced bandaging
station to be treated in the detachment for disinfecting and treatment of
contaminated injuries chemically and medically. Non-contaminated injuries
must be evacuated from the unit aid location to the location of losses
collection and according to the regular evacuation sequence.
Top Secret
[page-93]
Top Secret and Urgent
13. Provide us with the list of military hospitals that have been prepared in
your sector to receive contaminated injuries that have been disinfected, while
listing the secret airport prepared in case there are no hospitals that are
completely available for such cases, along with the procedures used to protect
the rest of the hospital sections from possible contamination. It is
necessary to designate a room in a suitable place in the military hospital to
disinfect contaminated injuries that may be evacuated directly to that
hospital as an exceptional case.
Enclosed:
1. The sequence of the operating procedures of the medical when the chemical
attack occurs along with a plan.
1. The sequence of operations at the unit level when a chemical attack occurs.
1. Plan for opening a detachment for disinfecting and treating contaminated
injuries.
Brigadier doctor
Nafa'a Aziz Ouayyed
Commander of the 2nd Corps medical
Copies to:
Command of the 2nd Corps
Medical affairs directorate
Command of medical branch of the 2nd Corps
[page-94]
Top Secret an Urgent
11. Coordination between the command of the chemical branch to construct an
organized detachment for disinfecting and treating contaminated injuries, and
to insure that it is well equipped along with specifying its opening location
in coordination with the command of the corps, to receive contaminated
injuries and chemical injuries in the administrative areas and rear units
which do not pass by the field medical units and evacuating them to the
military hospitals designated for their admission after giving them the
necessary treatment in the detachment above. The procedure above insures that
the concerned hospital will admit the contaminated injuries that have been
disinfected earlier.
12. Miscellaneous
A. The special office also approved the following:
First: The study of the amendment to the detachment for disinfecting and
treating contaminated injuries, as well as determining its special equipment
needs. You will be provided with the amendment after the study is completed
and approved.
Second: [illegible] plastic bags to evacuate contaminated martyrs to the
formations and units and field medical units
(the rest of the document is not legible)
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