Story by MATTHEW SHARMAN | Army Chemical Materials Activity | 10.03.2023
This commemorative series highlights the stories of the Blue Grass Chemical Activity workforce with personal accounts, reflections, and experiences with the sunsetting organization and its contribution to destroying the chemical weapons stockpile. This article is with Amy F., a former toxic material handler lead with various roles within BGCA. Her experience in chemical and conventional......
Story by MATTHEW SHARMAN | Army Chemical Materials Activity | 10.02.2023
This commemorative series highlights the stories of the Blue Grass Chemical Activity workforce with personal accounts, reflections, and experiences with the sunsetting organization and its contribution to destroying the chemical weapons stockpile. This special article showcases Colonel Rodney McCutcheon, the current Pueblo Chemical Destruction site commander, and the former BGCA commander. He......
Story by MATTHEW SHARMAN | Army Chemical Materials Activity | 08.30.2023
In this commemorative series, the stories of the Blue Grass Chemical Activity work force are highlighted with personal accounts, reflections, and experiences with the sunsetting organization and its contribution to destroying the chemical weapons stockpile. This article is with David M., the Safety Management Director, who has spent over a decade with BGCA. His unique view of BGCA comes from......
Story by MATTHEW SHARMAN | Blue Grass Army Depot | 08.21.2023
In this commemorative series, the stories of the work force of Blue Grass Chemical Activity (BGCA) are highlighted with personal stories, reflections, and experience with the sunsetting organization. This article is with Kim A, a Publication Management Control Officer who has spent a total of 8 years on the installation, and 3 years with BGCA....
Story by Spc. David Campos-Contreras | Task Force Spartan | 02.21.2023
"I love CBRN," said Warrant Officer Kelly Osmon. "I love that it's not just one thing; there are so many aspects to it. It's not just putting on your gas mask and going to a CS [gas] chamber or checking your mask." Osmon, with the 272nd Chemical Company, 79th Troop Command, Massachusetts Army National Guard, organized Dragon Defender, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear......
Story by Jerilyn Coleman | U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center | 08.11.2022
Engineers at the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) used their expertise in obscurant technologies to assist the U.S. Marine Corps in the mission to test obscurants to see how well they can protect against overhead attack....
Story by Brian Feeney | U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center | 07.27.2022
Seventeen Marines, Airmen and Sailors gathered at Aberdeen Proving Ground for 12 days in June to show how advanced software working in concert with advanced Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) technologies can create a next-generation threat warning and protection capability on the battlefield. The exercise culminated in a demonstration for senior leaders from the nation’s......
Story by Jerilyn Coleman | U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center | 07.26.2022
In the fall of 2021, three scientists from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) participated in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Scientist to Sea program held aboard the USS Gunston Hall, a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship, in Norfolk, Virginia....
