2-18. NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL CHEMICAL DEFENSE COMPANY.
a. The NBC defense company has the primary mission of providing NBC
reconnaissance and decontamination support. It also provides both services and
associated clothing exchange for the division in a non-NBC environment.
b. At full strength, the company can:
(1) Operate up to nine personnel decontamination stations, each capable of
decontaminating approximately 80 personnel per hour, to include the issuing of new
protective clothing; or
(2) Operate up to nine clothing exchange and bath points, each capable of
servicing approximately 2,000 troops per week; or
(3) Operate any combination of nine clothing exchange/bath points and
decontamination stations; or
(4) Conduct reconnaissance of the division sector to locate and report areas
c. When not required to operate nine full-time stations as described in b, above,
this unit is also capable of:
(1)
Providing emergency firefighting teams
(2) Providing alpha monitoring in support of nuclear accident and incident
control plan (NAICP) operations.
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