I signed up to be a CBRN, haven't left for basic or anything yet. What advice would you give?

I was never a CBRNE soldier, I worked with Nuclear Weapons, spent some time with some Chem rounds, and explosives. I studied hard and worked for Texas Engineering Extension (TEEX) as DHS WMD EMS Instructor. Read some of the history of WMD/CBRNE. Some really good books to better understand a lot of what we do, and should be doing can be found The Great Influenza, The Speckled Monster, a historical tale of battling smallpox. Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston (this book led President Clinton to ask his national security advisors if this could really happen, they said yes and shortly there after radical changes started happening). The great mortality by John Kelly deals with the bubonic plague and how it got started and wiped out half of Europe. You may also read some short stories on Anton Dilger, the German American Chemist who used Ganders on horses being shipped to Europe from the US. Anything you can find with William Patrick in it, he was the last Chief of Offensive Weapons Production at Fort Dietrich. He did some NOVA video interviews in th e lte 1990's and after 9/11. He forgot more about biological weapons than most of us will ever know.

At basic just do has you are told
Ait same but you get a few more freedoms
Be ready for death by powerpoint

Get ready to come to Korea, honestly

Be a road guard. For AIT, take lots notes, take it serious.

Go in level headed and with a good attitude

Prepared to be bored as fuck

Hard work brother. Best thing you can do is keep your head up and always find the bright side of everything

I think it's a cool MOS. You learn a lot, the gas mask will be your best friend. Ive seen a lot of opportunities to do cool missions/training

Once you get to CBRN training, immediately start studying your HAZMAT books! It’s the hardest tests out of the course

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