FORT HOOD, Texas (Dec. 8, 2014) -- Soldiers from the 20th CBRNE Command (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives) are participating in an exercise that has brought together U.S. Army combat units from around the nation this month.
The 52nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group is serving as the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command CBRNE Task Force on Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and the 192nd EOD Battalion, is training as a CBRNE Task Force here on Fort Hood.
The 20th CBRNE units are supporting the Fort Bragg, North Carolina-based 82nd Airborne Division, and the Fort Hood-based III Corps.
A simulation supported, multi-echelon tactical command post exercise, warfighter pits the Soldiers against a live, thinking adversary.
The exercise also enables the units to take an integrated approach to complex CBRNE threats. The warfighter exercise concludes Dec. 16.
Tasked to combat CBRNE threats, 20th CBRNE is experimenting with transforming its two EOD groups and chemical brigade into CBRNE Task Forces that are regionally aligned with I Corps in the Asia Pacific region; III Corps in Europe, Africa and the Middle East; and XVIII Airborne Corps on Global Response Force missions.
The Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland-based 20th CBRNE Command is home to over 85 percent of the Army's CBRNE capabilities, including two EOD groups, one chemical brigade, Nuclear Disablement Teams, CBRNE Coordination Elements, mobile laboratories, remediation units and consequence management formations.
"This exercise allows our troopers to train for the complex security environment that exists around the globe," said 20th CBRNE Commanding General Brig. Gen. JB Burton, a native of Tullahoma, Tennessee.
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