Training and Doctrine Command

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (USATDC), Fort Monroe, VA, 2006. Public information, FM 3-11.5. available at https //atiam.train.army.mil/soldierPortal/atia/ adlsc/view/public/22662-l/FM/3-11.5/toc.htm toc (accessed September 17, 2007). 

COL Patrick J. Sharon, Deputy Director, Joint Requirements Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (JRO-CBRND), Joint Staff/J-8 Mr. David J. Shaughnessy, Senior Analyst, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command... 

U.S. Department of the Army, ATCD-N, MEMORANDUM, Subject Joint Service Operational Requirement (JSOR) for the Automatic Chemical Agent Detector Alarm (AC AD A), Headquarters U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe,... 

Compared to the amount of organization and effort involved in defensive training, that devoted to offensive chemical warfare was relatively limited. Policy in this field was frequently reviewed by the War Department General Staff. Standard procedure was that chemical weapons developed for the U.S. Army should be produced "with a view to employment by one or more of the combatant branches (that is, by Infantry, Field Artillery, Air Corps, etc.). For such materiel, the CWS was in theory a producer and supplier only. But the Chemical Warfare Service was never content merely to purvey. It took the view that the stocks of smoke, incendiary, and gas munitions were specialties, the merits of which might be overlooked if not adequately utilized. Hence an important function of CWS officers detailed to the faculties of special service schools and the Command and General Staff School was to further the introduction of chemical warfare situations into instructional problems and at the same time assist in the development of doctrine covering the employment of chemical munitions by the several combat arms. The Chief, CWS, selected instructors for assignment to those schools with the utmost care. 

November 14-16, 2001, in Norfolk, Virginia (plenary session). Site visit to Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Virginia, U.S. Navy Atlantic Fleet Command, Headquarters, Marine Forces Atlantic, and U.S. Joint Forces Command to discuss operational readiness issues—fleet, bases, ports, Marine Corps warfighting—and joint doctrine training, tactics, and procedure development. 

TC 3-15. Nuclear Accident and Incident Response and Assistance (NAIRA). This training circular (TC) provides techniques, procedures, and guidance for nuclear accident and incident response and assistance during peacetime. It also provides technical guidance which can be used during both peacetime and wartime. TC 3-15 is intended for use by commanders both in and outside the continental United States (CONUS and OCONUS), by staff and soldiers whose units have custody of nuclear weapons and by US Army Depot personnel who respond to a nuclear accident or incident. Wartime NAIRA doctrine and procedures are fully discussed in FM 100-50. 27 December 1988. 

Commanders and troops in Europe never had the same confidence in the portable flame thrower exhibited by their Pacific counterparts." Infrequent use of the weapon meant not only the neglect of doctrine and training, but that supply and maintenance practices would not be tested and improved. Employment of the weapon often ended disastrously, a circumstance which only added to its shaky reputation. In cases where it might have been effectively used it was sometimes discarded in favor of another weapon. 

After Gimp Sibert had been designated as a Class I activity of the Fourth Service Command in May 1943, CWS activities at the camp were limited to the promulgation of training doctrine, the establishment of student quotas, and the preparation of training programs. While this system was workable, it appears likely that had gas warfare materialized CWS control of the installation would have become necessary. 

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