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NBC Defense Annual Report
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• Published MCWP 3-37, MAGTF NBC Defense, September 1998.
• Conducted and managed the Joint Service Mask Surveillance and Testing Program.
Marine Corps FY99 Initiatives:
• Integration of NBC defense procedures in Mission Oriented Tasks (Garrison and Field).
• Conduct USMC NBC Defense Course Content Reviews based on revised ITSs and
emerging NBC equipment requirements.
• Continue development of USMC NBC Staff Planning follow-on course, a training course
to prepare NBC defense officers and NCOs to assist in the staff planning process.
• Establishment of combat training package for ISMs for reserve forces and follow-on
forces in the event of hostilities involving an NBC threat.
• Continued Annual Joint Marine Corps and Navy shipboard decontamination exercises
with 7th Fleet.
• Continue participation in a bilateral exchange program with the Republic of Korea
(ROK) Chemical Corps.
• Conduct Front End Analysis for an NBC SNCO Advanced Course.
• Continue development of an “Enhanced NBC” capability for MEUs.
5.7.6 Emergency Response: Army Medical Response
The AMEDD continues to be involved in supporting DoD and federal counterterrorism
initiatives and contingency operations related to NBC threat agents, mainly with elements of the
Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC). The following offices and agencies have
required AMEDD assistance: DoD SO/LIC, J4 Medical Readiness, U.S. Army Technical Escort
Unit, US Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of Emergency Preparedness, and the U.S. Marine Corps CBIRF.
The U.S. Army has recently published AR 525-13, Antiterrorism Force Protection
(AT/FP): Security of Personnel, Information, and Critical Resources from Asymmetric Attacks,
dated 10 September 1998. From this regulation it is assumed that U.S. Army medical treatment
facilities and clinics will be called upon to provide assistant to civilian first responders if a WMD
terrorist act occurs and to provide emergency room and inpatient treatment for both eligible
DoD beneficiaries and civilian casualties. This regulation specifically states that the Surgeon
General (TSG) will:
a) Establish policy and guidance on the management and treatment of conventional and
nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) casualties.
b) Coordinate emergency medical NBC response capabilities worldwide with other DoD,
Joint, Federal, state, local and HN agencies.
c) Maintain medical NBC response teams to address nuclear, biological/emerging infection,
chemical accidents/incidents worldwide
d) Provide chemical and biological analysis of biomedical samples from patients/decease to
assist in the identification of agent(s) used against U.S. personnel.
e) Provide guidance on the vaccination and prophylaxis against biological warfare agents.