Collective Training in CBRN Unit of Serbian Armed Forces
Wednesday, 11.12.2024 | Training
Regular training of members of the 246th CBRN Battalion is underway at the “Car Lazar” Barracks and “Ravnjak” Training Ground in Kruševac.
The training activity is part of collective training of professional staff that all Battalion members go through to sustain and improve their skills in performing the tasks arising from the unit’s mission and purpose.
This phase implies practicing actions and procedures for conducting CBRN control and decontamination in case weapons of mass destruction are used or in case of accidents.
The training activity is executed with the use of equipment that ensures full protection of personnel when working with contaminants and means of detection, dosimetry and decontamination, the most important being the MPD-09 mobile decontamination platform, domestically produced.
Commander of the 246th CBRN Battalion Lt. Col. Miroslav Stankovski emphasizes the importance of training members of this tactical Army unit to plan, organize and undertake special counter CBRN measures in a timely manner.
— Training is the most important task in the Battalion. It aims to realize the unit’s mission, and it is the squad and platoon commanders that are in charge of its implementation, while company commanders are also engaged for more complex training tasks, Lt. Col. Stankovski points out.
Training instructor Captain Miljan Stefanov explains that the training process consists of two separate segments — training CBRN reconnaissance units and training decontamination units.
— We train CBRN reconnaissance units through practicing procedures for observing nuclear and chemical attacks, performing reconnaissance of directions, regions and areas of contaminated soil, as well as doing chemical and radiometric laboratory analysis. The training of decontamination units takes place through practical work at a CBRN decontamination station, where they practice removing radiological contaminants, and neutralizing chemical and destroying biological ones from the surface of human bodies, weapons and motor vehicles affected by weapons of mass destruction — said Captain Stefanov.
The successful implementation of training, conducted in the 246th CBRN Battalion throughout the year, improves further not only the skills of professional members of the unit in performing specific tasks in the operations of the Serbian Armed Forces, but also their readiness to provide effective support to civil authorities in alleviating the consequences of technical-technological and other accidents.
