Training Battalion

Chemical Troops course (twenty-eight months) and an advance course for chemical service officers (thirty months). Chemical noncommissioned officers are trained in six month courses at chemical training battalions. ... 

Nuclear weapons can rapidly destroy unwarned and unprepared battalion sized units. Medical units are often co-located with other combat service support units. This proximity may cause medical personnel to be in the nuclear target area. Decentralization, cross-training, moving often, adding redundant capabilities, and conducting split-based operations are all mechanisms. A balance must be made between ... 

TC 3-10. Commander s Tactical NBC Handbook. Training circular 3-10 provides Commanders of battalions and brigades with the tactics, techniques and procedures to train and operate under nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) conditions. The three key issues are What requirements NBC warfare places on you and your unit (Chapters 1, 2, 5 and 6), How your leadership improves unit performance under NBC conditions (Chapters 1, 3 and 4), and How you use all of your chemical assets (Chapters 7 and 8). 

The Iraqi Army is said to total about sixty thousand men. I doubt if there are anything like that number present with the colors. My own guess would be around thirty thousand. There are three divisions the Mountain Division at Kirkuk, which keeps an eye on the turbulent Kurds in the north, the Plains Division at Nasiriya, and the Bagdad Division, which is largely a training establishment, and of which only the Royal Bodyguard (one infantry battalion and one squadron... 

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