Chemical Warfare School mission

The CWS protective mobilization plan contemplated that training of other components at the Chemical Warfare School would be discontinued upon mobilization, when the school would reorganize for its primary mission of training CWS troops. Two types of courses were specified in the new setup successive thirty-day refresher classes of seventy-five officers, and a series of classes for enlisted specialists (meteorologists). This program would have proven inadequate, even had it been followed. Yet there was no evident inclination in 1940 to extend the school training of CWS officers. In recommending to the War Department the courses to be conducted at the school between i July 1940 and 30 June 1941, the CWS proposed only six courses, none of them specifically for preparation of Chemical Warfare Service officers for active duty. ... 

The Western Chemical Warfare School was an experiment in preparedness which would have paid appreciable dividends had operations in the final stages of World War II taken a different turn. As it was, experience in the conduct of this school demonstrated that, given a nice combination of facilities, training know-how, and proper direction, a gratifying satisfactory end product of instruction will result. The school was small and its immediate training objectives were modest yet the success with which it accomplished its mission indicated that, if necessary, it could easily have undertaken a more ambitious program. 

CHEMICAL CORPS (CmlC). A branch of the U.S. Army established 6 September 1946 out of the War Department s Chemical Warfare Service (CWS). According to the U.S. Army Chemical School, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, the mission of the CmlC is to... 

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