NUCLEAR BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL DEFENSE SURVEY

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Subject: NUCLEAR BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL DEFENSE SURVEY                  

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Folder Title: FOLDER MESSAGE FILES VARIOUS SOURCES DT 216                                                     

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            yellowish tent bc   it throws such a glare its almost unbearable.
            * Mll. Not real     pleased with the employment of the Mll. I know
            its a good handy piece of gear. But bc of possible leakage and DS2
            makes it a hazard and being so f lammable anyway.        I dont have a
            solution to that problem at all. Other than a mounting bracket or
            something coming out with these HMMWVs to way the way these things
            were mounted in a specif ic point other than laying down, they
            should upright and possibly outside in case there does become a
            leak than it wont become hazardous to the individual riding inside
            the vehicle. There is no guidance, that I know of, for mounting
            the Mll. It was for the jeep and not so much for the HMMW. if
            there is I dont know of it. They said use what you can. Use teh
            mounting, cant drill into the vehicle itself so they want you to
            use places insides the vehicle that have already been drilled out
            so almost all are in a lay down position. We                leakers but
            that was the guidance came down watch out for leakers.      We had ours
            RGS2 for almost 2 months and it never did leak. But the possiblity
            for a leak was there and that was a big major concern. Didn't like
            the way we had to fill these things. Toxic fume. My guys wore gas
            masks and had papers on and gloves but it mades such a mess. THE
            Cam,         is slops all over and its hard to open a container. it
            came out bc of the water problem that we were faced with and it was
            a problem for decon all the way through CFSD resupplying us with
            water when we are very limited in our water. So used chlorox
            bleach.    I f ind that   is being dif f erent percentages f or chem
e you are going to have to add bleach anyway and
            also decon of equipment   personnel. Prefer to stay with the clorox
            bleach. If it goes bad on you just rinse it down with water and
            dilute it and wont have   to worry about a big hazard.
            * We didn't get to employ the M13s. I issued them out to each one
            of the lines, tracks did not get to use those and I thought those
            were a good piece of gear. But it is not good for giving out to a
            line company. Problem with line companies issuing out all these
            gears such as radiac instruments, morphine kits, bleach, DS2,
            everything I had issued the company gunny he has one vehicle if
            they had to do a            mobile.    It would have been a gunny's
            nightmare - bogging him down with alot of NBC gear plus you have
            gel and water and amo he has to concern himself of.
            * My biggest heartache I've had since I've been over here other
            then those minor things which we can live with that has probably
            been transportation. Not having assets to an infantry Bn for NBC
            they would take my asset bec we have limited amo, VAS and all the
            other commodity sections that need to gear up as well as myself.
            So they would actually come to a pause and dump my stuff and go
            back and make another room. I honestly feel that the infantry Bn
            should be given at least one            possibly two and a HMMWV. The
            reason I say a HMMWV is bc if   we go MEC I have myself or my NBC MCO
            and four track and the main track with the main COC I would have
            either myself or one of my NBC guys. Then I have to worry about
            trying to get my third person transportation which normally rides
            in three vehoile which is usually jam packed with (cruise) gear.
            So if I had a vehcile I could set it up as a control center
ehcile. Prepared to do any overlay or walk along with teh main
            command elements and make sure everything is done, you know

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Folder Title = FOLDER MESSAGE FILES VARIOUS SOURCES DT 216
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Subject = NUCLEAR BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL DEFENSE SURVEY
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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 = 04-NOV-1996