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North, South, &
Central America
Africa, Europe, &
Southwest Asia
U.S. Northern
Command & U.S.
Southern Command
Africa Command,
Central Command, &
European Command
Global
Expeditionary
Capability
Joint Task
Force-Civil Support
Special
Operations
Command
Direct
Support
CCE
U.S.PACOM
Pacific
Command
U.S. Army Africa &
U.S. Army Central
XVII Corps
Task Force 52
(CBRNE)
Direct
Support
Pacific &
Southeast Asia
Operational
Control
Direct
Support
CCE
U.S Army Pacific
Command
III Corps
I Corps
Task Force 48
(CBRNE)
Task Force 71
(CBRNE)
Operational
Control
CCE
Direct
Support
Operational
Control
CCE
20th CBRNE
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE)
Figure 3. Regional Alignment Construct
for complex challenges. Reorganizing the 20th CBRNE
Command to create three multifunctional, regionally
focused CBRNE brigade TFs will ensure that the Army
has ready, reliable, and globally responsive CBRNE
capabilities to meet the challenges of the current and
future strategic environments.
Reorganizing the command from its current configuration of one CBRN brigade and two EOD groups
into three similarly organized CBRNE brigade formations would result in an immediate increase in national
capacity, with zero growth in personnel.
Whether for training or contingency operations, or
as enduring organizations, task-organizing into three
regionally aligned multifunctional CBRNE brigade TFs
would ensure that these forces are properly organized,
focused, positioned, and prepared to respond globally
to ever-evolving CBRNE threats.
This adjustment to mission command can be
achieved with no physical relocation of units, and it
would immediately deliver more flexible and capable
regionally focused CBRNE forces. Given the anticipated reductions of EOD force structure due to Total
Army Analysis 18-22, the proposal would mitigate the
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(Graphic by Col. F. John Burpo, U.S. Army)
challenges of historical ad hoc solutions to similar and
anticipated future mission sets and it would overcome
the command’s current unity of command and unity of
effort challenges resulting from the widely distributed
basing construct and complex mission profiles.
For the supported commanders, task-organizing
the command would resolve the issue of disparate
command and support relationships of CBRNE forces
throughout the formation by assembling them under a
single O-6 commander and integrated staff.
Regional Alignment of CBRNE
Brigade Task Forces
The CBRNE brigade TF concept (henceforth referred
to as a CBRNE brigade) would enable the packaging of
trained and ready CBRNE forces under one commander.
This would increase mission command effectiveness and
reduce the impromptu relationships reminiscent of ad
hoc planning for Operation Eagle Claw.
Each CBRNE brigade would be regionally aligned with
the Army service component commands, and in support
of the three Army corps based in the continental United
States (CONUS) in accordance with the Army’s regional
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