![]() ![]() There are nine countries known to have nuclear weapons, including China, Russia, and North Korea, also India and Pakistan who share a border and a dislike for each other. Recently WMD Response teams have popped up in the Guard and Reserve side that have chemical soldiers along with radiation specialists and EOD. They lay smoke in support of maneuver units. They provide battle field obscurants, most commonly smoke. They provide the expertise and equipment for a deliberate decon of a unit (pax and vehicles). They conduct chemical reconnaissance with the M93 Fox and similar systems. Chemical Companies are usually the big three: recon, decon, smoke. ![]() The vast majority are in other than CBRN units. They maintain all the CBRN equipment in a unit and provide training to the unit on CBRN tasks and equipment like detection of agents, personal decon, protection, unmasking procedures and deliberate decon. USR (Unit Status Report) is a monthly requirement in which they crunch many of the numbers. They usually have more senior CBRN NCOs/Officers at BN, BDE, and DIV (battalion, brigade, and division). This is an update of an article I posted a couple of years ago, titled “Chemical”, so you don’t have to read both.Ī Chemical Corps Lieutenant Colonel recently described the job like this “Most 74Ds are the CBRN Specialist for a company, any company. AIT (Advanced Individual Training) is 11 weeks, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. That is CBRN Specialist (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear), MOS (Military Occupational Specialty)74D. That job has a fairly high number of soldiers, and a very high requirement for Sergeants. If you are considering the Army, but you are not a “kid” anymore, and you don’t want to forever become an equal with the “youngsters”, there is one support job where you can rapidly rise through the ranks. Other than the infantry, there is one job, where that has been happening for the past couple years. Take charge and be the SME, and you can do some pretty cool stuff.Īlso, if you are squared away, it is really easy to get schools.Make Sergeant in two years, Staff Sergeant in just over four. However, if you hang out with your training and readiness NCO, you will also learn a lot of great stuff there. Supply is easy, and get to know supply well. However, you will be grouped with who you hang with. If you don't get put into a CBRN company, it can be challenging. After that, I'll wargame a bit to accept a commission as a cbrn warrant officer, hopefully back into a CST as the Survey Team Lead. Love my job (Covid aside).įor the future, I'm aiming to take a Team Chief (E6) spot in the next two years, hold that for a bit, then drop a packet to go to WOCS. Immediately after that rotation, I slid into a survey job on my State CST, which is the best kept secret in the AGR program, by the way. Again, I was able to stand apart from the crowd pretty easily. Last year, I took an attachment with another battalion as their CBRN NCO at Headquarters during a JRTC rotation. That was 3 weeks of decent hands on training in dismounted recon in various suits other than green-gear which was really nice. Being part of the CERFP also gave me an additional method to stand above peers by being good at what I did there.Īfter 3 years, the unit's mission was updated and I got to go to a fielding for the DRSKO equipment. I got dropped into a CBRN unit assigned to the CERFP. I've heard that has changed drastically, though, and you actually get hands-on training. It is a decent school, but when I went through, it was 10 weeks of death by powerpoint. I wanted intel, but there is one intel unit in my State, they can't even do their job within the State, and they had no excess slots. My recruiter told me that I couldn't be an MP because "any mouth-breather can be an MP.". I had a 95 ASVAB, and my lowest line score was a 122. When I enlisted, my MOS picks we're MP, Intel, and CBRN. ![]()
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