The Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) was established in 1996. Since then, CBIRF s mission has expanded to included responses to radiological and high-yield explosive incidents. Its concept of operation has been reworked to include two separate incident response forces within CBIRF. The objective of this study was to determine the medical requirements for a variety of potential terrorism scenarios to which CBIRF may respond. These included ...
The growing threat posed by the possible use of biological and chemical agents by terrorists or renegade nations increases the need for Marine Corps and Navy health care providers to be prepared to treat victims of biochemical agents on the battlefield. This study reviewed Marine Corps medical supply blocks for biological and chemical warfare casualties - Authorized Medical Allowance Lists (AMALs) 687 and 688. Treatment profiles were created for 42 ...
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