Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces Detecting, Characterizing, and Documenting Exposures (2000) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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, the National Institutes of Health Technology Assessment Workshop, the Institute of Medicine Committee to Review the Health Consequences of Service during the Persian Gulf War, the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, and others (e.g., Lebowitz, 1998) have all conducted extensive reviews and published reports on the health of veterans.
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medical protection, health consequences and treatment, and medical record keeping. Scope of This Study This study, which is one component of the overall evaluation, addresses the second area, DoD's approaches to detecting and tracking exposures of deployed military personnel to potentially harmful agents, including CB agents, toxic industrial chemicals (TICS)
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Since the Gulf War, DoD has attempted to redress this gap. Although this study includes agents other than the traditional weaponizable warfare agents, a distinction between CB agents and other harmful agents is made to be consistent with the terminologies used by DoD and the other three concurrent studies.
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, and the ISMG Contamination Avoidance Commodity Area presented briefings at open meetings. Lessons from previous deployments, DoD field manuals, and other documents were also reviewed to provide a broad context for evaluating current and planned military doctrine and training.
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.2 2 It is widely agreed that future military systems for command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance will require new technologies to meet the growing demand for sensor integration, high-speed data transport, more data storage, and distribution and analysis of data to achieve full, real-time, situational awareness on the battlefield and meaningful postdeployment assessments. If the recommendations of this study are implemented, they could add significantly to DoD's existing needs for improving computers, information processing and storage, and communications technologies.
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The types and extent of exposure information needed during a deployment depend largely on the military mission, the deployment environment, and how the information will be used. Although DoD is putting forth a great deal of effort to develop technologies for detecting CB agents and for tracking military personnel during deployments, it is not yet clear how these technologies and the information they provide will be used to assess potential exposures to harmful agents or to make operational decisions.
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The Army's training program emphasizes contamination avoidance but also includes protocols for training troops to conduct effective combat operations in a CB environment with protective equipment (U.S.
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. Although contamination avoidance remains the guiding principle, the Army states that chemical doctrine will change "to include considerations of evolving technology, chemical force structure, and threats .
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Chapter 5 addresses techniques for detecting and monitoring concentrations of potentially harmful agents by both fixed-site and mobile methods. Because characterizing exposures requires an understanding of how and where troops might come into contact with agents, their geographic locationsusing technologies such as GPS and their specific activities at those locations must be identified.
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