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File: 102996_sep96_decls8_0002.txt
Subject: CHEMICAL TRAINING MAKES 504 READY
Unit: OTSG
Parent Organization: HSC
Box ID: BX003204
Folder Title: CHEMICAL CASUALTY CARE ANNUAL REPORT OPERATION DESERT SHIELD STORM
Document Number: 7
Folder SEQ #: 28
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sot. Ban Hamn%ond cisam PFC @y Tttoaw p@o @g a
chemical ca@hy oxamise. Both w$dltm gre wfth @ 2nd 504th PIFL
e% E.
L.f7emical
having put every @ in this brigade
from page I thmugh this mume, we m " prepared as
we possibly could be for this " of open-
cal agents and antidotes "yk; tion.'
--roteachthemhowto@nforpationts@ C"tonoWthatistBrigademediman
mass casualty sit"tion; ,also better equipped @ "or before w
- 'ro review all Mission Oriented Protec. treat conventions mmbst-mlated ms"]-
tive Postum mmmon task skills @d; ties.
- 'ro develop cmfidence and wmpewnm 'Asignif'@tpartaf@brigadehisgone
in dealing with chemical m@itin.' thmugh the Basic Tm@ Life Support
While noting that a chemi@i casualty is 1 Co@, theyve been through this chemical
often the result of bad training and bad coum and they'w base @ing with ther
discipline, C"lUo emphasized that expo- individual mits,'he@
sum w most agents is usually nonlethal. In addition. he said. 10 percent, or about
'A common mi@mmption is that chemi. 300 la Brigade solejem have been certi.
car agents kill alatof people,-he said. 'That fied or Notified in the @bat Ufemver
simply is not true. 7bey an not efrmive in Cowu since the division deployed.
that MnN. 'Is that an ad@ numb"? Well, the
'ney do produce a lot of casualties it)i standard is one per squw or mw-semed
minor or modem@@"rio@ injuries who weapon,' he said. @ battalions have
do, in fact, survive. Ileir @ is really many more combat @@en than they
designed w put a strain on logistical and i would need to have, according to that s@-
medical support systems.' dA4'
Themajordiff'imitymedimfamhesaid,is Kain said he is on@t of Ms brigade's
performing necessary medical p@edums ability to handle my @"lated me&-
while in MOPP4, w well as the manpower- on] emergency. 'We be" good pm@on
intensive decontamination prmem from chemical agents, I think them mums
'Once you have patients decontaminated are exftllent and, if m raffia go back and
and tnnsporw to the yftr, then it's an traintheirplatoonamwhat@elftme4
problem,' he said. the division should do pretty well.'
'Although it!s diffimlt to predict enctly @ media an teully mffidmt,' lit
what the eqmrienm will be like. I feel that added. 'Irwe p to win, wen ready.'
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File Room = sep96_declassified
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Box ID = BX003204
Unit = OTSG
Parent Organization = HSC
Folder Title = CHEMICAL CASUALTY CARE ANNUAL REPORT OPERATION DESERT SHIELD STORM
Folder Seq # = 28
Subject = CHEMICAL TRAINING MAKES 504 READY
Document Seq # = 7
Document Date =
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 25-OCT-1996