Fort McClellan

The report also notes that instructors urged many classes of students at the US Army Chemical Corps School at Fort McClellan, Alabama to take a dose of LSD. They would thus better understand the effects of the compound, and could provide clinical data that would help to assess its value. The IG team considered this a subversion of the original directive. The term demonstration in Van s report also seemed to run counter to the following ... 

R.L. Wagner and T.S. Gold, Why We Can t Avoid Developing Chemical Weapons, Defense (1982), p. 3 Fort McClellan, National Military Publications (1983), pamphlet. 

Several other studies were also reported in the 1940s, but these were primarily reports of psychiatric problems allegedly related to marihuana use. For the most part, the patients were nearly always black. One study involved thirty-four black and one white soldiers. In another, the ratio of blacks to whites was twenty to one. At Fort McClellan, Alabama, where the ratio of recruits was seven whites to one black, fifty-five black and five white soldiers were referred for psychiatric service related to marihuana use. 

U.S. Army Chemical School ATTN ATZN-CM-FNB Fort McClellan, AL 36205-5020. 

The army actually made plans to abolish the Chemical Corps entirely. In 1973, with the signing in Paris, France, of the peace pacts to end the Vietnam War, and with the end of the draft, the army recommended reducing the Chemical Corps in size and eventually merging it with the Ordnance Corps. As the first step, the army disestablished the Chemical School at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and combined it with the Ordnance School at Aberdeen... 

In 1976, the secretary of the army reversed the decision to abolish the Chemical Corps. He cited the heightened awareness of the Soviet Union s capability to wage chemical warfare as the primary reason. In 1977, the United States started a new effort to reach an agreement with the Soviets on a verifiable ban on chemical weapons. This effort was unsuccessful. Partly as a result, the Chemical School was reestablished at Fort McClellan in 19 7 9.167 177-181... 

Chemical Corps School. Chemical School. Fort McClellan, Ala Chemical Corps School n.d. 

US Army Chemical Corps. Wizard of Battle. Fort McClellan, Ala Army Chemical Corps n.d. Pamphlet. 

Fort McClellan. Fort McClellan, Ala National Military Publications 1983 3. Pamphlet. 

US Army Chemical School. World wide NBC threat briefing. Fort McClellan, Ala US Army Chemical School Threat Office March 1992. Unclassified. 

Adapted from Avery M. Major, Chemical Corps, US Army US Army Chemical School, Doctrine Development Division, Fort McClellan, Ala. New MOPP Levels and Peacetime Filter Changeout Criteria. (Summary of Change 2 to Field Manual 3-4,21 Feb 1996.) Internet Chemical-Doctrine discussion site, 24 Jul 1996. 

In these circumstances chemical warfare training is of critical importance. The major NATO countries have NBC training schools Grenoble in France, Sonthofen in West Germany, Winterbourne Gunner in Great Britain, CFB Borden in Canada, Breda in The Netherlands and Fort McClellan which was reopened in the United... 

Until 17 December 1942, when the first UTC rifle range was officially opened, the UTC had to utilize the range facilities of Fort McClellan, thirty miles away, for this instruction. Gradually the supply of rifles and ammunition improved, although at one time there was no more than forty Mi rifles available for unit training purposes. 

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