Accelerate Change: Empowered Airmen

We live in a world that is driven by rapidly changing technology and an environment that includes aggressive and capable global competitors. Airmen are key to cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, recognizing and understanding our competition, and thinking of creative ways we can reshape the design of our Air Force. The Air Force must accelerate, must change, and must prepare for the future!

This page is dedicated towards highlighting the accomplishments of our talented Airmen at all levels and to show the impact they can make when they are informed and empowered to problem solve and make smart recommendations and decisions.

 

 

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Video by Marshall Mason
Civilian-led CBRNE unit help theater commanders make informed decisions
20th CBRNE Command
Jan. 24, 2024 | 1:37
Rick A. Trombly, the laboratory manager for the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Analytical and Remediation Activity (CARA), provides a brief overview of the organization’s capabilities and personnel, Jan 24.

As a civilian-led subordinate unit of the 20th CBRNE Command, CARA can deploy and provide mobile laboratory support to unified land operations for theater validation analysis of chemical, biological and explosive agents, or materials.

CARA also provides world-wide emergency response to Recovered Chemical Warfare Material (RCWM), technical escort of surety and non-surety material, and remediation support to combatant commanders.

Headquartered on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, the 20th CBRNE Command is the U.S. Department of Defense’s premier CBRNE formation. The multifunctional and deployable command has approximately 3,600 Soldiers and 250 Army civilians stationed on 19 bases in 16 states.

In addition to CARA, the 20th CBRNE Command is home to 75 percent of the active-duty U.S. Army’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) specialists and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians, as well as the 1st Area Medical Laboratory, five Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Coordination Teams, three Nuclear Disablement Teams (Infrastructure).
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