Chemical Soldiers Chemical Soldiers T he United States Army's Chemical Defense Training Facility at Fort McClellan, Alabama, is the Department of Defense's only training center using live toxic chemical agents. Michael A. Schwarz Soldiers are exposed to Stannic Chloride. The irritating gas will then be sprayed when they are masked to prove to the soldiers the effectiveness of the masks. Before training with live agents, soldiers go through a replication of that training outside, using inert agents. The training prepares the soldiers to deal with the live agent training.
Students dilute and wash live agents from a training table.
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