CML Army Chemical Review articles from June 22 2008

CML Army Chemical Review archives from June 22 2008

Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons: Promise or Peril?
June 22, 2008... Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons: Promise or Peril? Alan M. Pearson, Marie Isabelle Chevrier, and Mark Wheelis, editors, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, November 2007. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This book originated from a June 2005...

Historical Dictionary of Nuclear Biological, and Chemical Warfare.
June 22, 2008... Historical Dictionary of Nuclear Biological, and Chemical Warfare, Benjamin C. Garrett and John Hart, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, August 2007. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Benjamin Garrett is a former Chemical Soldier who is...

The AN/PSS-14 mine detector requires a license: mine detection moves into the future.
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Why is there an article about mine detectors in Army Chemical Review? Isn't the mine detector an engineer thing? I'm sure that these questions will be on the minds of many Chemical Soldiers as they read through this...

Toward a comprehensive national incident management system: "what is" versus "what could be".(Emergency Interoperability Consortium)
June 22, 2008... The progress associated with using technology to collect and store data has far outpaced the ability to process or convert that data into useful or, more precisely, actionable information. Closing this dangerous knowledge gap (the proverbial...

Inactivation of the 455th Chemical Brigade.
June 22, 2008... The 455th Chemical Brigade, the only Chemical brigade in the history of the Chemical Corps to deploy from the United States to a theater of operations, was inactivated on 15 September 2007. In a fitting ceremony, the brigade colors were...

Reserve component update.
June 22, 2008... Army Reserve Units The 460th Chemical Brigade (Camp Pike, North Little Rock, Arkansas) held an inactivation ceremony on 10 February 2008. Colonel Wornest Lambert (brigade commander) and Command Sergeant Major David Hayes (brigade command...

Doctrine update.(Table)
June 22, 2008... DOCTRINE UPDATE U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center Directorate of Training Doctrine Development Division Publication Title Date Number Current Publications FM 3-11 ...

U.S. Army flamethrower vehicles (part three of a (three-part series).
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Army Flamethrower Vehicle Research and Development (1945-1953) Following World War II, Army research involving flamethrower tanks initially focused on two variants of the M26 medium tank. The T-35 was a joint...

Spartans make their home in Texas.(48th Chemical Brigade)
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They call themselves "Spartans." "As the Spartans of the past, we too are trained and ready to respond when our Nation calls," said Colonel Vance P. Visser, commander of the 48th Chemical Brigade. The 48th...

Homemade explosives and hazardous materials.
June 22, 2008... Recent experience in supporting explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) operations in Iraq has highlighted the urgent need for predeployment training on hazardous materials (HAZMAT). An increase in the number of homemade explosives (HMEs) in Iraq has...

German liaison team honored.(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... On 26 March 2008, Brigadier General Thomas W. Spoehr, Commandant of the U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear School (USACBRNS) and Chief of the Chemical Corps, presented the German liaison team of Lieutenant Colonel Fabian...

CBRN transformation in the IBCT: too little too late?(Infantry Brigade Combat Team and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons)
June 22, 2008... BCTs [brigade combat teams] are the Army's basic tactical maneuver units, [sic] and the smallest combined arms units that can be committed independently. BCTs are designed to conduct offensive, defensive, and SO [special operations]. Their core...

The Netherlands? What's over there?
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When I look back on my 18 years of Active Army service, I am reminded that I have had the opportunity to be a Dragon Soldier in a myriad of interesting and exciting places throughout the world. As an enlisted...

Print commemorates both anniversary of the Chemical Corps.
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Staff Sergeant John M. Flores created this drawing to represent U.S. Army Chemical Corps Soldiers and their ninety years of stalwart service to our Nation. Various missions and equipment of the Chemical Warfare...

CBRN soldier personifies personal courage, places mission first.
June 22, 2008... Integrity check: Have you ever thought, or maybe even said, "This is not my job, I didn't sign up for this, I'm not supposed to be here, doing this?" Even the most dedicated, selfless Soldier must admit to having had these types of thoughts....

CBRN hazard mitigation and geospatial data: a synergistic approach.(chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear)
June 22, 2008... In regions where increasing numbers of people occupy a finite and densely crowded area, urbanization, migration, public health, and refugees are factors of growing strategic importance. --Field Manual (FM) 3-100.4 Due to recent...

Improvised explosive device defeat.
June 22, 2008... Capability Integration Team The Army has established a Capability Integration Team (CIT) to specifically assist active and reserve deploying units with improvised explosive device defeat (IEDD) training and materiel capabilities...

Joint task force elimination integration and combined elimination team training in the Republic of Korea.
June 22, 2008... During exercise Ulchi Focus Lens (UFL) 2007 (conducted in August 2007), the Army's 20th Support Command (SUPCOM) Headquarters and the U.S. Strategic Command Joint Elimination Coordination Element (JECE) strategically deployed to the Republic of...

A "people sniffer" operation that went terribly wrong.
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The date 13 February 1971 started out as a typical day for the First Team. But that was about to change; a field experiment was to be conducted. The 1st Cavalry Division had been conducting "people sniffer" missions,...

Decontamination operations in a mass casualty scenario: observations from Ardent Sentry 2007.
June 22, 2008... At 10 a.m. on 10 May 2007, a terrorist group smuggled in and detonated a nuclear device, resulting in a 10-kiloton surface blast near Lawrence, Indiana (just northeast of Indianapolis). Local, state, and federal government officials were...

Combined microbiology training in support of new and emerging biowarfighting capabilities.
June 22, 2008... Biological warfare--coined "public health in reverse" because it involves the deliberate use of living microorganisms or their toxins to incapacitate or kill people (1)--has never been used on a large scale. In fact, it is currently banned...

Honoring our fallen dragon soldiers.
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Specialist James Gudridge Hometown: Carthage, New York Unit: 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division Fort Stewart, Georgia Killed: 6 January 2008 ...

90th Anniversary Regimental Week Agenda.(Calendar)
June 22, 2008... 90th Anniversary Regimental Week Agenda The 2008 U.S. Army Chemical Corps 90th Anniversary Regimental Week will be conducted at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in June. The following schedule is provided for planning purposes, but is...

10th RCSM signing out!(Regimental Command Sergeant Major)
June 22, 2008... For the past four years, I have had the distinct honor and privilege of serving Dragon Soldiers as the 10th Regimental Command Sergeant Major. Time has a way of continuing to move forward in our everyday lives. And as much as I (and maybe...

Chief of chemical.
June 22, 2008... Dragon Soldiers, another great edition of Army Chemical Review! I am proud to report that our Corps is advancing on all fronts. On 28 June 1918, President Woodrow Wilson ordered the establishment of the Chemical Warfare Service as a...