United States Army CBRN School

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U.S. Army Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear School (USACBRNS)
Active	1918 – present
Country	United States
Branch	U.S. Army
Type	TRADOC
Garrison/HQ	Fort Leonard Wood
Motto(s)	Elementis regamus proelium (Let Us Rule the Battle by Means of the Elements or We rule the battle through the elements)
Colors	Cobalt Blue and Gold
Mascot(s)	Dragon
Commanders
31st Chief of Chemical/ Commandant	Brigadier General Daryl O. Hood
Regimental Chief Warrant Officer	Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Lockwood
Regimental Command Sergeant Major	Command Sergeant Major Henney Hodgkins
Notable commanders	LTG Thomas W. Spoehr, LTG Leslie Smith, MG Peggy Combs, MG Maria Gervais, MG James Bonner

The United States Army CBRN School (USACBRNS), located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is the primary American training school specializing in military Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense.^{[citation needed]} Until 2008, it was known as the United States Army Chemical School.

Training Facilities[]

Seal of the U.S. Army Chemical Corp

In accordance with U.S. Federal Law, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri is designated the central location for all of the Department of Defense's CBRN Operations Training and home to the Chemical Corps Regiment. It was moved from Fort McClellan Alabama after the base was closed by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) in 1999.

The Army CBRN School provides numerous courses for officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Initial Entry Soldiers. Numerous international officers also send students to train at the CBRN School. Additionally, the US Air Force, US Navy, US Coast Guard and US Marine Corps all also maintain training elements at Fort Leonard Wood who, in partnerships with the Army CBRN School, train their personnel in CBRN operations.

Fort Leonard Wood and the Army CBRN School also have facilities in which to conduct training, such as the (or CDTF) where military students from across the globe train and become familiar with actual nerve agents in realistic scenarios, and also conduct training with radiological isotopes and inert biological agents. The is one of the very few radiological teaching laboratories licensed by the NRC in the Department of Defense. It provides a variety of training in radiological and nuclear defense under the supervision of credentialed scientists.

The newest facility at the CBRN School is the . Opened in November 2007, The 1LT Joseph Terry Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) Responder Training Facility occupies approximately 22.5 acres (91,000 m²) and provides a state-of-the-art^{[peacock term]} CBRN Responder Training Campus for Inter-Service and other Agencies as requested. The US Army CBRN School is the lead for all DOD CBRN Response Training. This facility provides unmatched^{[peacock term]} training opportunities in the fields of CBRN Consequence Management, Hazardous Materials Incident Response, Realistic training venues and other CBRN Response arenas as required. The CBRN School also provides training in Sensitive Site Assessment and Exploitation.

In addition to training, the CBRN School also develops doctrine for Operations, researches and develops materiel requirements, and conducts joint service experimentation as the Joint Combat Developer for the Department of Defense's Chemical and Biological Defense Program.

Official name change[]

On 11 January 2008, The U.S. Army Chemical School was renamed as The U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School (USACBRNS). The name change was to encompass, in the title of the school, the wide range of training and expertise maintained by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps.

Command[]

As of June 4, 2021, the Commandant of the U.S. Army CBRN School is Colonel Dale S. Crockett United States Army CBRN School. The Assistant Commandant is Colonel Sean G. Kirschner. The Regimental Command Sergeant Major is RCSM Christopher Williams. The Regimental Chief Warrant Officer, is CCWO Robert A. Lockwood.^[1]

Former Commandants and Chiefs of Chemical[]

		Name	Photo	Term Began	Term Ended	Y	M	D	Reason
Director of Chemical Warfare Service
-	MG	William L. Sibert		17 May, 1918	1 Mar, 1920	1	9	14	Resigned	1884 (USMA)
Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service
1.	MG	Amos A. Fries		1 Jul, 1920 (16 Jul, 1920)	27 Mar, 1929	8	8	12	Relieved	1898 (USMA)
2.	MG			28 Mar, 1929	27 Mar, 1933	4	-	-	Relieved	1900
3.	MG			9 May, 1933 (24 May, 1933)	23 May, 1937	4	-	-	Relieved	1901 (USMA)
4.	MG			24 May, 1937	30 Apr, 1941	3	11	7	Retired	1901
5.	MG			31 May, 1941	30 May, 1945	4	-	-	Relieved	1910
*	MG			31 May, 1945	10 Nov, 1945	-	5	11	-	-
*	BG			10 Nov, 1945	29 Nov, 1945	-	-	20	-	-
6.	MG			29 Nov, 1945	20 Aug, 1946	-	8	23	Retired	1920
Chief of the Chemical Corps
6.	MG			20 Aug, 1946	30 Sept, 1949	3	1	11	Retired	1920
7.	MG	Anthony C. McAuliffe		1 Oct, 1949	1950				Relieved	1919 (USMA)
Chief Chemical Officer
7.	MG	Anthony C. McAuliffe		1950	31 Jul, 1951				Relieved	1919 (USMA)
8.	MG			25 Aug, 1951	31 Mar, 1954	2	6	25	Retired	1917 (USNA)
9.	MG			7 May, 1954	31 Aug, 1958	4	3	25	Retired	1926 (USMA)
10.	MG			1 Sept, 1958	31 Jul, 1962	3	11	-	Relieved	1929 (USMA)
Chief of Chemical
		[[]]
24.	BG			29 Jun, 2006
25.	BG	Leslie C. Smith			10 Aug, 2010					1983 (ROTC)
26.	COL			10 Aug, 2010	24 Aug, 2012					1984 (ROTC)
27.	BG			7 Sept, 2012	5 June, 2014					1985 (ROTC)
28.	BG	Maria R. Gervais		5 June, 2014	26 May, 2016					1987 (ROTC)
29.	BG	James E. Bonner		26 May, 2016	6 July, 2017					1988 (ROTC)
30.	BG			29 June, 2017	25 April, 2019					1991 (ROTC)
31.	BG			25 April, 2019	Present					1991 (ROTC)

See also[]

• Army Gas School
• Human experimentation in the United States

References[]

External links[]

• U.S. Army CBRN School official website.
• Fort Leonard Wood Army Training Center official website.