Story by Steve Burghardt | Defense Finance and Accounting Service | 02.28.2022
At the end of November 2021, residents and workers in military housing and offices near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, began complaining of fuel-like odors in their water. By the time December began, testing revealed contamination of water supplying a number of military housing areas and base facilities....
Story by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 03.23.2020
The 17th Medical Group activated a drive-in pharmacy and restricted the Ross Clinic to active duty members and patients seeing providers for the foreseeable future on Goodfellow Air Force Base here, March 23....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District | 04.27.2018
Excitement was in the air of Building 6 on the Buffalo District reservation the afternoon of Apr.16, 2018. The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) project delivery team for a site in Luckey, Ohio was waiting to hear from the field that the Phase 1 cleanup began. At 4:08 p.m. the first photo was taken; the Luckey site contractor, North Wind-Portage, had just started......
Story by Cpl. Joshua Murray | I Marine Expeditionary Force | 02.16.2015
U.S. Marines, Sailors and Thai military members joined forces to conduct chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear response training for exercise Cobra Gold 2015 Feb. 16, 2015 at Camp Samaesan, Kingdom of Thailand....
Story by Lance Cpl. Ryan Mains | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 12.05.2014
For Lance Cpl. Andrew Jackson, entering a building with an unknown, possibly harmful chemical outbreak is just another day on the job as a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense specialist Marine....
Story by Sgt. April de Armas | 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade | 06.27.2013
An explosion rocked a hangar on Simmons Army Airfield and sent troopers into frenzy of action as they exited the building to find many of their own wounded. Fortunately, Atlas paratroopers of the 122nd Aviation Support Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, were pleasantly surprised when they realized the explosion they were responding to was part of a mass casualty training exercise,......
Story by Sgt. April de Armas | 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade | 06.24.2013
Decontaminating a helicopter may seem foreign to 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade troopers who have spent the better part of the last 12 years maintaining and flying aircraft over the skies of Iraq and Afghanistan. As the All American aviators’ mission set changes, however, such training for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats plays an essential role in the unit’s......
Story by Staff Sgt. Kristen Duus | 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division | 06.19.2013
As the Ready First brigade nears the end of its time in Afghanistan, and as the mission has focused more on Afghan independence, combat outposts are being closed or handed over to the Afghan National Security Forces....
