CML Army Chemical Review articles from July 1 2000

CML Army Chemical Review archives from July 1 2000

Chief of Chemical.(U.S. Army)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... COL(P) Patricia L. Nilo Chief of Chemical What a tremendous amount of change and OPTEMPO we are experiencing in our Army today! Transformation has touched nearly every one of us. However, even if you are not decisively engaged in this...

Regimental Command Sergeant Major.(U.S. Army)
July 1, 2000... CSM James E. Van Patten III Since our last publication, your Chemical School and the Chemical Corps Regiment really have been busy, just as you have been busy in the most important job in the Chemical Corps, the one you hold now. Every...

NBC Defense Training: Meeting the Challenge!(U.S. Army)
July 1, 2000... "Deadlier than a bullet: unclean, often unseen, sinister in its stealth. Goes for your head--the brain cells themselves, as well as a psychological number it lays on you--and your body. That's NBC warfare. Therefore, it's no fun to train for...

The Chemical Corps and Domestic Decontamination Operations.(U.S. Army)
July 1, 2000... In a speech to the Defense Science Board, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said, "As the new millennium approaches, the United States faces a heightened prospect that regional aggressors, third-rate armies, terrorist cells, and even...

Nullifying the Effectiveness of Weapons of Mass Destruction (NBC)--with Integrated Land-, Air-, and Space-Based Sensors and Analysis.(military policy, United States)
July 1, 2000... "Weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, biological, and chemical, along with their associated delivery systems, pose a major threat to our security and that of our allies and other friendly nations. Thus, a key part of our National Security...

CDTF Takes Extra Care Inspecting Chemical Suits.(Chemical Defense Training Facility at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Responding to a recent report of defective chemical suits, officials at the Chemical Defense Training Facility (CDTF) at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, have taken measures to ensure that there is no cause for alarm. "None of those suits are...

Weapons of Mass Destruction Force-Protection Training.(terrorism-management standards and training programmes for military personnel and civilians)
July 1, 2000... As a result of several events in the early part of the 1990s, the protection of U.S. forces and facilities from terrorist attack assumed a prominent role in the operational plans of the major Army commands and, subsequently, the training...

Combined-Arms Training-Strategies Aid-short-and long-range training plans.(development and execution of military personnel training programmes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Combined-Arms Training Strategies (CATSs) are the Army's overarching strategies for planning, resourcing, and executing short- and long-range individual and collective training. The CATSs discussed in this article are short-range...

The Armored-Vehicle Protective-Mask 3 History.(development of gas mask for use by military-tank personnel)
July 1, 2000... In addition to the modern use of chemical agents in war, armored vehicles (tanks) were used first in World War I. The crewmen who operated these armored vehicles required protection. Initially, these soldiers were masked with the same mask as...

1999 SIBERT AWARD WINNERS.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The 1999 Sibert Award Committee has selected the following companies for the William L. Sibert Award: Active Army 21st Chemical Company 82d Airborne Division Fort Bragg, North Carolina 28307 Reserve Forces 413th...

MORTAR SUPPORT FROM THE SEA--CWS MORTARS SUPPORT AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II.(Chemical Warfare Service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... In landings on hostile beaches during the early part of World War II, amphibious doctrine possessed a small disconnect. The first waves in any beach assault were largely infantry and engineers with a few support personnel. Supporting artillery...

The Gimbal Cam Socket Story.(development of tool for use in chemical-weapons disposal operations)
July 1, 2000... The end is in sight at the U.S. Army's Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS) where chemical-weapons disposal operations are in the final stages. The completion of disposal operations at JACADS will be a milestone event for the...

The Chemical Corps Role in Homeland Security.
July 1, 2000... "I, John Doe... do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies--foreign and domestic;... SO HELP ME GOD." With these words, I and millions like me, of all branches and components of...

63D Chemical Company Conducts First M56 "Coyote" Air Assault.(military training operation)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... On 25 January 2000, during a rare Western Tennessee blizzard where the wind chill hovered around zero degrees Fahrenheit, 1st Platoon, 63d Chemical Company, completed the first successful air assault of the M56 Coyote smoke-generator system....

Proper Wear of Duty Uniforms in Winter.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Private Joe Snuffy awoke on an average morning and hurried outside to the first formation of the day dressed improperly for physical training (PT). Because he did not know that he could wear polypropylene underwear underneath the PT uniform,...

FLU: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It.(Brief Article)(Review)
July 1, 2000... By USACMLS Command Historian, Dr. Burton Wright FLU: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It, Gina Kolata. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999. The year 1918 has a uniqueness...

Saddam's Secrets: The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Tim Trevan. New York: Harper, Collins, 1999 At the end of the Gulf War, it was assumed that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) had been destroyed. The final authority laid in the hands of the UN inspectors whose task was to ensure...

LETTER FROM THE CHIEF OF CHEMICAL TO THE CORPS.(participation of Chemical Corps in Korean War)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... KOREANWAR--50th ANNIVERSARY Dragon Soldiers, On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, and President Truman committed U.S. Army troops to help South Korea repel the invasion. As the Army built up its strength, Chemical Corps...