CHEM BIO MED DEFENSE

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Subject: CHEM BIO MED DEFENSE                                            

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Box ID: BX003203

Folder Title: MDEP INFORMATION PAPER                                                                          

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                                MDEP INFORMATION PAPER


                                                            9 Oct 90

        MDEP     HSCB       MDEP TITLE: Chem-Bio Med Defense

        POC NAME: MAJ Robert Eng OFFICE SYMBOL: DASG-HCD

        PHONE: (703) 756-8163


        1. TAP/DG REFERENCE.

            a. The Army Plan (Draft FY 1992-2007) - Section VII, Planning
        objectives and Army Programming Guidance, B. 1. b. (p 22) and B. 5.
        b. (p 26). 'lb. (U) SUSTAINMENT - Sustainment includes logistics
        support to the existing and programmed force. This includes supply,
        troop support, war reserves, maintenance, transportation, energy
        management, medical support, force protection, logistic quality of
        life support, and installation logistics services. Also included is
        support to other Services and allies."

            b. DG (29 Mar 88, FY 1990 - 1994) - CHEMICAL WARFARE AND
        BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE (P 92). "Provide the prophylaxes and antidotes
        necessary to sustain operations under CBT conditions."

        2. Narrative Description:

            a. The MDEP provides medical chemical/biological (CB) defense
        materiel for general purpose forces to survive the CB battlefield.
            b. Examples of materiel included in this MDEP are chemical
        antidotes and pretreatments, patient wraps, multichambered chemical
        autoinjectors, vital signs monitor, contingency stocks of endemic
        disease and biological warfare vaccines, chemical decontaminatable
        litters, chemical agent patient treatment sets, and chemical patient
        decontamination sets. No facilities are included in this MDEP.

            C. This MDEP does not cover personnel nor contract workyears.
            d. All the funding for this MDEP is OMA P-2 dollars which buys
        the items in 2b.

        3. Vaccination of the peacetime Army force with biological warfare
CB
        does not have. It has only P-2 OMA funds.   It is the objective of
        HSCB to provide the standing Army Force the maximum BW protection
        for readiness purposes. Recommend that OMA  P-2 funds be permitted
        to be used for peacetime vaccination of the standing Army Force.

        4. MDEP HSCB supports Army general purpose  forces worldwide. Its
        priority is to free initial issue newly developed CB medical defense
        items to Army units worldwide and to establish and maintain a BW and
        endemic disease contingency vaccine stockpile.

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