L2: ACT800 AHS Planning for CBRN Flashcards
The ability to exploit intelligence about CBRN threat dispositions and intentions and to determine the characteristics and parameters of CBRN hazards throughout the OE that impact decision making and CBRN defense activities is known as
CBRN hazard awareness
the ability to individually and collectively comprehend the implications of the character, nature, or subtleties of information about CBRN hazards and their impact on the OE, mission, and force, in order to enable situational understanding is known as
CBRN hazard understanding
2 primary themes must be considered during intelligence preparation for AHS CBRN response planning
- the availability of CBRN material/agents
2. the adversary’s ability to deliver those agents
delivery methods of CBRN agents
- aerial/surface spray
- surface to surface missile
- air to surface missile
- artillery
- covert options
CBRN threats from the civilian industry
- factories or chemical storage tanks in the area/region
- endemic diseases in the region
- industrial/medical uses of radiological material
- mining operations
- uranium refining operations
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Operations in CBRN Environments
Symptoms/effects/ rate of action/release form of Nerve Agents
SYMPTOMS: difficulty breathing, sweating, drooling, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, headache, lost vision
EFFECTS: range from incapacities to death
RATE OF ACTION: rapid through inhalation or through eyes, slower through skin
RELEASE FORM: aerosol, vapor, liquid
Symptoms/effects/ rate of action/release form of Blood/Choking agents
SYMPTOMS: difficulty breathing, coma
EFFECTS: interference with respiration at cellular level or by interfering w/ oxygen transport
ROA: rapid
RELEASE FORM: aerosol, vapor
Symptoms/effects/ rate of action/release form of Blister agents
SYMPTOMS: powerful irritation of eyes, nose, skin
EFFECTS: blisters skin and resp. tract; can cause blindness, some sting and form welts on the skin
ROA: depending on the agent, minutes to hours
RELEASE FORM: liquid, particulate
2 main goals when treating CBRN Patients
- assess patient without any further injury to them or yourself
- don’t cross contaminate
battlefield effects of CBRN (planning factors)
- reduced force (casualties)
- reduced evacuation assets
- resupply requirement for Medical Chemical Defense Countermeasures
- Psychological casualties
- possible civilian casualties
examples of biological CBRN agents
- anthrax
- plague
- Q fever
- tularemia
- smallpox
- viral equine encephalitis
- viral hemorrhagic fevers (ebola, dengue, etc.)
- botulism
- ricin
- staphylococcal enterotoxin B
mortality rate of ebola virus
65-90%
mortality rate of Rift Valley Fever
50% of patients with hemorrhagic form
Radiological Dispersal Devices (RDDs)
any device, including any weapon or equipment other than a nuclear device, specifically designed to employ radioactive material by disseminating it to cause destruction, damaged, or injury
“the classic radiological device”
Radiation Exposure Devices (REDs)
Any radioactive material in a sealed/unsealed container intended to expose people in the vicinity
-involve sources ranging from insignificant to large sources producing high-level dose
Improvised Nuclear Devices (INDs)
- Designed to produce a nuclear detonation at full or partial yield
- physically the same as a nuclear weapon: blast, burns, and radiation
- exposes people to trauma, high-level dose, inhalation and ingestion hazards, and contamination
Parts of a nuclear air burst
- Blast (50%)
- Thermal energy (35%)
- Residual radiation (10%)
- Initial radiation (4%)
- Electromagnetic Pulse (1%)
Patient Movement Considerations when patient is contaminated
- what is theater evac policy
- what are your ground/air assets
- has patient been decontaminated
- how will you decon your medical equipment
- are providers properly trained
- are CBRN tx and decon sets available
operational decon planning considerations
- decon as far forward as situation allows
- have a separate way in and way out
- locate decon site near natural water (if available) to reduce logistical burden and minimize time in MOPP
- be downwind of friendly troops
- finish the fight, then decon when available
Steps for preparing for nuclear attack at the company level
- Company OPS receives intelligence reports from HHQ regarding nuclear/radiological hazard
- CO issues WARNORD
- CO sets MOPP levels, establishes automatic masking criteria, issues plans to issue PPE
- 1SG directs defensive preparations for a nuclear attack
- OPS enforces OPSEC, dispersion, cover, and concealment measures to avoid being targeted
- OPS directs checking of radiological detectors/alarms and conducting nuclear/radiological survey missions
- OPS receives and distributes effective downwind message (EDM) or effective downwind forecast (EDF) from HHQ
- OPS receives and plots potential decon sites on the SITMAP from HHQ
defensive preparations for a nuclear attack
- disconnect nonessential electronic equipment
- prepare shelter for protection from blast, heat, radiation
- protect food, water, munitions, etc. from blast, heat, radiation
- zero dosimeters
- tie down essential antennas
Preparing for a FRIENDLY Nuclear Strike at the Company Level
- Element plots the STRIKWARN message on the situation map
- CO determines what actions to take
- Element notifies subordinate elements that may be affected by the strike
- Element disseminates dazzle warnings to the flying units or squadrons in the region
- Element directs implementation of protective measures established in the SOP or by higher prior to detonation (ie. shield vehicles/equipment, disconnect nonessential electronic equipment, tie down essential antennas, improve shelters)
- Element notifies units of cancelled Friendly Nuclear Strikes
- Element notifies HHQ when all subordinate units have been notified
How to react to a Nuclear Attack at Company Level (steps 1-10)
- Conduct initial personnel protection measures for a nuclear weapon attack: close eyes, drop to ground, crawl to the closest available protection, seek shelter
- Maintain or restore Mission Command
- Perform primary mission
- Make initial CBRN NUC 1 report of the incident
- Seek the best available protection (building, bunker, fighting position)
- Check personnel for injury, check weapons and equipment for damage, prepare to continue mission
- Monitor and report attack indicators to CBRN control center: detector response, casualty data, environmental data
- Conduct damage assessment and the restoration of combat power
- Prepare fallout hazard predictions
- Prepare to send HHQ information: start/end time of fallout, optimum time to exit fallout areas, total dose calculations, etc.
