1966 US Army Vietnam War ARMOR ... - Survival Books

WWW.SURVIVALEBOOKS.COMAttack. A contaminated armored vehicle will cle, the crew will spray the vehicle with a decontinueits mission until the tactical situation contaminating apparatus. Should this provepermits decontamination by the crew. For very insufficient, specially trained personnel maylight contamination, exposure to the weather scrub the entire vehicle with hot soapy watermay be sufficient for decontamination. Decon- or apply the bleach slurry or DANC method.tamination of the interior of the vehicle may Decontamination is performed at decontaminabeaccomplished by the use of forced hot air or tion points in maintenance areas by vehiclewiping with rags. Other expedients are protec- crews and special units.tive ointment on small critical areas and sol- c. Maintenance personnel should exercisevents such as kerosene, fuel oil, and diesel oil care when disassembling or servicing previousonlarge critical areas. When such expedients ly contaminated equipment. For additional inareused, they must be washed off or otherwise formation on decontamination and further exremovedbefore damage occurs to sensitive ma- planation of the above methods, see FM 21-40,teriel. To decontaminate the outside of a vehi- FM 21-41, and TM 3-220.167