Gas officer

Bedard, D. L., Van Dort, H. M., Bunnell, S. C., Principe, J.M., DeWeerd, K. A., May, R.J. Smullen, L. A. (1993). Stimulation of reductive dechlorination of Aroclor 1260 contaminant in anaerobic slurries of Woods Pond sediment. In AnaerobicDehalogenation and its Environmental Implications, pp. 19-21. Abstract of 1992 American Society of Microbiology Conference, Athens, GA Office of Research and Development, U.S. EPA. 

Abolish unit gas officer positions. Armed Forces Chemical Journal. 1954 8(5) 4. 

Malingering and gas hysteria were two other sources of casualties. In World War I, many soldiers were evacuated to the aid stations who probably were suffering from gas hysteria. A Division Medical Gas Officer... 

Interv, Hist Ofi with Rowan, 26 Sep 58. General Rowan was an assistant division gas officer and later division gas officer under Fries. (2) Interv, Hist Off with Maj Gen Alden H. Waitt, USA (Ret,), 13 May 61. 

AEF General Order 53, 3 November 1917, made the Gas Service responsible for supplying all division, corps, and army gas officers with antigas supplies. 

In July 1943 the CWS asked the ASF for authority to establish a chemical warfare school toward the West Coast. The recommendation was advanced as a means of providing final instruction for military personnel moving into Pacific theaters of operations and of eliminating extensive travel for those selected at western stations for training in chemical warfare. The functions of the new school would be (i) to provide for short technical refresher courses of one-week duration for CWS officers in the Far West who were scheduled for overseas duty (2) to provide short courses for units gas officers who could not be economically sent to the Chemical Warfare School at Edgewood (3) to conduct training for civilians, as directed by the Office of Civilian Defense and (4) to meet requests of naval authorities for training naval personnel on the Pacific coast in gas defense. ... 

After recruit instruction in use of the gas mask, training followed three well-defined phases specialist training of unit gas officers and NCO s basic training of units under direction of their gas officers and NCO s and, finally, application of basic unit training in field problems involving gas situations. 

Anticipating that the training of regimental and battalion gas officers in such local schools would sometimes be difficult during the course of mobilization, the War Department announced a series of one-month classes at the Chemical Warfare School to provide this type of training. In accordance with GHQ policy that the detail of students to service schools should be discretionary with unit commanders, no quotas were set. Thirteen of these... 

Because of the tremendous pressures under which AAF training was conducted, expecially in the early stages of mobilization, more advanced training in gas protection was necessarily limited. Schemes for the collective protection of airdomes were prepared and key personnel trained in operating procedures. A notable contribution to the advancement of individual and collective protection was the training of 385 air force officers in a series of seven Unit Gas Officers classes conducted for the AAF by the Chemical Warfare School during 1941. The role of the Chemical Warfare Service in... 

Gas Specialists Course (5 days) To qualify senior (local) gas officers and gas reconnaissance agents for performance of their duties instruction of the general public, and equipment and training of Citizens Defense Corps enrollees. 

In the fall of 1942, a sixty-hour course of instruction was outlined for training unit gas officers in unit or local schools. This course was generally followed in training at division or corps levels. The 60 hours of instruction... 

The Navy Gas Officers and the Navy Gas Enlisted Courses, each of six days duration, were not comprehensive. These short courses were limited to technical training in protection against war gases, with particular attention to naval protective materiel and protective measures and decontamination procedures afloat. Where more extended instruction of this type was desirable for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard enlisted personnel, the students were assigned to the NCO Course after April 1943 instead of the special four-week classes. 

Like the training of Navy personnel, the instruction at the Chemical Warfare School for the Army Air Forces had roots extending into the prewar era. The training of unit gas officers for duty with AAF commands was accomplished principally through the fifteen special UGO (Aviation) classes conducted between January 1941 and February 1943. Through this program, the AAF was able to implement its widespread scheme of training... 

Unit Gas Officers (4 weeks) Identical with the course standardized at Edgewood Arsenal. 

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