Wash Rack Operations: The Use of Unit Decontaminatin Assets to Enhance Vehicle PMCS

摘要

Near the end of December 2003, as the Soldiers of the Army's first Stryker Brigade began preparing for movement to their new area of operations in Iraq, the Dragon Soldiers from two battalions in the 3d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, were uniquely tasked to perform missions other than those typically expected of chemical Soldiers. There was a simple problem: Due to several continuous weeks of combat operations in the soft clay mud, most of the brigade's vehicles needed to be thoroughly cleaned to facilitate preventive-maintenance checks and services (PMCS) efforts prior to movement. But, there was an equally simple solution: Use the brigade's organic chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) decontamination assets to provide high-pressure spray capabilities at a makeshift wash rack.