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CBRNE
CBRNE
EOD
EOD
EOD
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CRT
Key
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LAB
EOD
Explosive
Ordnance Disposal
Counter Improvised Explosive Device Mission Package
CBRNE
EOD
CBRN
Ø
CRT
Ø
LAB
Ø
LAB
Ø
NDT
Field Deployable
Laboratory
Weapons of Mass Destruction Elimination Mission Package
CBRNE
EOD
CBRN
Ø
LAB
Ø
LAB
Ø
LAB
Ø
CRT
Ø
LAB
Endemic Disease Mission Package
CBRNE
EOD
CBRN
CBRN
CBRN
CBRN
Consequence Management Mission Package
CBRNE Response
Team
CBRN
Chemical, Biological,
Radiological, and
Nuclear Defense
Ø
LAB
Ø
NDT
Nuclear
Disablement Team
The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Battalion Task Force is TAILORABLE and SCALABLE, providing
integrated CBRNE capability with a mission command element to the supported commander.
(Graphic by Col. F. John Burpo, U.S. Army)
Figure 4. Potential Integrated CBRNE Mission Packages
alignment of forces concept (see figures 2 and 3).13 TF 71
(CBRNE), positioned in the western United States, would
align in general support of I Corps with a focus on the U.S.
Pacific Command area of responsibility (AOR). TF 48
(CBRNE), positioned in the central United States in general support of III Corps, would focus on the U.S. Central
Command, U.S. Africa Command, and U.S. European
Command AORs. TF 52 (CBRNE), located in the eastern
United States, would align in general support of XVIII
Airborne Corps and their global response force mission.
Task-organizing and regionally aligning the 20th
CBRNE Command’s subordinate formations would
markedly improve readiness through unity of command,
unity of effort, and increased “train as you intend to fight”
familiarity between 20th CBRNE and supported force s.
By focusing efforts regionally and aligning in support of
the Army service component commands through the
three CONUS-based corps, the command would be
better prepared to fulfill its expeditionary mission requirements without relying on traditional ad hoc solutions.
Through task organization, the leaders, soldiers, and
civilians of the 20th CBRNE Command would become
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better informed about their potential primary operational environment and better able to train habitually
with their supported maneuver formations. This, in
turn, would increase interoperability and enhance
examination of specific regional threats, from current
combat operations to the entire range of threats found
across the combatant commands.
CBRNE Task Forces at the Combat
Training Centers
To test the CBRNE TF concept, the 20th CBRNE
Command organized and employed different configurations of CBRNE battalion-task-force formations
in support of brigade combat teams during nine CTC
rotations in fiscal years 14 and 15. Additional rotations
are planned for fiscal years 16 and 17. Both CBRN
and EOD battalions have served as the integrating
headquarters under which CBRN, EOD, and CBRNE
response teams; nuclear disablement teams; and expeditionary laboratories have been assembled.
CBRNE TFs can be scaled and tailored across a
range of possible contingency operations as shown in
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