Chemical officer

D. Hank Ellison served in the United States Army as a chemical officer and has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as both a remedial project manager and federal on-scene coordinator under the Superfund Program. He currently is president of Cerberus Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in response to technological disasters. 

Other considerations were particularly important to military commanders. For example, how high a dose could the average person survive if no treatment were available How much would weather conditions - particularly heat - affect the likelihood of a fatal outcome Just how much BZ would a chemical officer in the field need to disseminate to achieve desired effects throughout a given area, and how much variation in dosage would each type of munition produce ... 

IG, had to be shared by the ACSI, the Offices of the Surgeon General and the Chief Chemical Officer. 

The Commander of the Chemical Corps Research and Engineering Command, die Chief Chemical Officer, and the Surgeon General forwarded a plan developed by die Chemical Corps, listing seven investi tive studies in progress. After its approval, ftiey downgraded the original Secretary of Defense s memorandum to Confidential. ... 

These precedents undercut the original policy. In 1958, the Surgeon General and the Chief Chemical Officer approved a similar proposal for the use of certain nerve agents, once more bypassing the Secretary of the Army. This further eroded Army Chief of Staff Memorandum 385. The report goes on to delineate other examples of procedural slackening. 

Ellington, J.J. and Stancil, F.E., Jr. Octanol/water partition coefficients for evalnation of hazardons waste land disposal selected chemicals. Office of Research and Development, U.S. EPA Report 600/M-88/010, 1988. 

Kollig, H.P., Ellington, J.J., Weber, E.J., and Wolfe, N.L. Environmental research brief - Pathway analysis of chemical hydrolysis for 14 RCRA chemicals. Office of Research and Development. U.S. EPA Report 600/M-89/009, 1990, 6 p. Kolthoff, I.M. and Chantooni, M.K., Jr. Crown ether complexed alkali metal picrate ion pairs in water-saturated dichloro-methane as studied by electrolytic conductance and by partitioning into water. Effect of lithium chloride on partitioning, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 42(l) 49-53, 1997. 

CIS Chemical Information Systems, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland CESARS Chemical Evaluation Search and Retrieval System 189 chemicals OFFICE OF MATERIALS CONTROL OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN S DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Detailed information and evaluations on a group of chemicals of particular importance in the Great Lakes Basin. Each record contains up to 185 data fields with references to the studies used in their documentation... 

TSCA PLUS Toxic Substances Control Act 58,000 chemicals OFFICE OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Chemical substances, complex reaction products, and biological materials in TSCA publications. Includes information on manufacturers... 

Office of Chief Chemical Officer, GHQ, AFP AC, General Organisation Intelligence Report on Japanese Chemical Warfare, Vol. 1, Tokyo (May 1946). 

Office of Chief Chemical Officer, New Gas Detector Kit, Information (12 September 1944). 

Standard and chemical Office software. Databases for the storage and retrieval of information generated in the laboratory, with search software. Document management LIMS. Online searching of external databases, catalogues and other information. Electronic Notebooks. Knowledge Management. 

Extracting Protein, Medicines and Other Useful Chemicals", Office of Technology, Washington D. C., 1983 p. 138. 

J. Greenblatt, The Chloralkali Chemicals. Office of Industries, U.S. International Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., 1999. 

Chief Chemical Officer, Department of the Army, Washington 25, D. C. 

Chemical officer, in coordination with the G3/S3, FSO, and smoke unit commander/platoon leader prepares the smoke estimate. 

When the commander directs his unit to go from MOPP Zero to M0PP1, the chemical officer/NCO will determine BDO/CPOG days of wear. Upon completion of the mission, the unit returns to MOPP Zero, and overgarments are returned to their vapor-barrier bag. The chemical officer/NCO at company or battalion level estimate the number of days of BDO/CPOG wear for his unit. Then uses the information on days of overgarment wear as input for risk assessment. 

Prior planning based on information provided by the chemical officer will help the commander make sound decisions. Regular updates need to be provided to the commander because of rapid changes in the situation. 

The three levels of decon—immediate, operational, and thorough-are presented as part of this chapter to explain the seven standard decon techniques used for most decon operations. Your chemical officer or NCO advises on efficient ways to conduct operational or thorough decon operations. For example, conducting decon operations might require the use of one or a combination of the seven decon techniques. 

B. Sample/Specimen Collection. Sample/specimen collectors should use full protective gear. If the specimen or sample is to be tested for biological agents, it must be marked as such. Great care should be used to prevent cross-contamination of one sample/specimen by another. Routine medical sampling procedures will be modified so that proving and documenting the BW attack occurred. Contact TAML, USAMRIID, the unit s Chemical Officer and Technical Escort for additional help. 

A. Corps (or appropriate) Chemical Officer - in charge of the NBC defense for the unit. 

During the early 1920s, there were several suggestions from within the CWS that it undertake more research into biological agents. Fries, who had been promoted to major general and had replaced Sibert as the Chief Chemical Officer in 1920, however, decided it was not profitable to do so. In 1926, he wrote in the annual report of the CWS ... 

The CWS continued to maintain stockpiles of the key World War I-chemical agents during the 1930s. Captain Alden H. Waitt, then Secretary of the Chemical Warfare School at Edgewood Arsenal and later Chief Chemical Officer, summed up the CWS s planning for the next war in 1935 ... 

The tremendous potentialities of biological warfare in the future demand that the necessary tactics and employment in the field be worked out well in advance so that such means may be used immediately and effectively once a decision to do so is made. It is essential that Chemical Officers on the staffs of divisions and higher units, including equivalent Army Air Force elements, be in a position to advise their Commanders relative to the capability, limitations and means of protection against this new method of attack. Further, they must be able to prepare suitable offensive and defensive plans and to supervise such training of troops in these methods as may be required.114... 

The Chemical Corps ended the Korean War in a much stronger position than it faced after the end of World War II. The corps reduced its units and manpower somewhat, and terminated many of its procurement contracts in the months following the 1953 armistice. Still, Major General Egbert F. Bullene, the new Chief Chemical Officer summed up the feeling of the corps about the Korean War and the Cold War in general Today, thanks to Joe Stalin, we are back in business. 125(p8)... 

In 1959, Major General Marshall Stubbs, the new Chief Chemical Officer, assessed the growing Soviet chemical threat ... 

Quotation Cochrane RC. The 3rd Division at Chateau Thierry July 1918. In US Army Chemical Corps Historical Studies Gas Warfare in World War I. Washington, DC Office of the Chief Chemical Officer, US Army Chemical Corps Historical Office 1959 90. Study 14. Photograph Reprinted from Gilchrist HL. A Comparative Study of World War Casualties From Gas and Other Weapons. Edgewood Arsenal, Md Chemical Warfare School 1928 facing page 20. 

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