Soldier and Biological Chemical Command

U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM)... 

U.S. Aluminate Company (USALCO), 252 U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM), 252... 

United States Army Soldiers and Biological Chemical Command. Risk Assessment of Using Firefighter... 

In December 1996, DoD appointed the deputy to the commander of the Soldier and Biological Chemical Command to be the PMACWA. On July 28,1997, af-... 

AEA (AEA Technology Engineering Services, Inc.). 2000. ACW II Demo II Report, AEA Draft Final PM-ACWA Demonstration II Test Program Technical Report, contract number DAAD1300-C-0014, November 17. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command. 

Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, United States Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21010, and " Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Sierra University, Riverside, California 92515... 

Anthony, J.S., Haley, M.V., Manthei, J.H., Way, R.A., Burnett, D.C., Gaviola, B.D., Sommerville, D.R. et al. (2003). Inhalation toxicity of GF vapor in rats as a function of exposure concentration and duration and its potency comparison to GB. ECBC-TR-335. Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. 

The toxicity associated with SM is quite profound. The Army s Chemical Defense Equipment Process Action Team estimated in 1994 that a 900 mg-min/m SM vapor exposure would be lethal in 2-10 min, based on animal studies (National Research Council Review, 1997). Fortunately, in the battlefield, lethality has been limited. Only 1-3% of exposed soldiers died from SM exposure after WWI, and mortality mostly was not a direct consequence of SM, but rather the indirect effect of secondary respiratory infections. The 1999 Material Safety Data Sheet, put out by the US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, USA Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, has estimated the LD50 of a skin exposure to sullur mustard as lOOmg/kg. This roughly translates into as little as 7 ml of neat SM (i.e. 8.9 g) spread over the skin resulting in the death of a 80 kg adult (Department of the Army, MSDS, 1999). The cornea, of course, is more sensitive than the skin. Below we review three chief toxic effects of severe SM exposure to the cornea. 

Barrett, Gloria, Program Manager, Enhanced Soldier Systems. 1999. Presentation to Advisory Panel on Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces, Task 2.3 Physical Protection and Decontamination, Soldier Systems Center, Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, Natick, Mass., November 16. 

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