DVIDS – News – U.S. Army Double Dragons Company deploys to South Korea to support ROK-U.S. Alliance

CAMP HOVEY, South Korea – U.S. Military Chemical Corps Troopers from Fort Hood, Texas, deployed to South Korea to help the Republic of Korea-U.S. Alliance.

American Troopers from the 181st Chemical, Organic, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) Firm (Hazardous Response) are serving on a rotational deployment to help the twenty third CBRN Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division and Eighth Military.

The 181st CBRN Firm changed the 71st CBRN Firm from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, because the rotational CBRN firm throughout a ceremony, Nov. 1.

The Fort Hood, Texas-based 181st CBRN Firm “Double Dragons” are a part of the 2nd CBRN Battalion, forty eighth Chemical Brigade and twentieth Chemical, Organic, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, the U.S. army’s premier all hazards command.

From 19 bases in 16 states, Troopers and U.S. Military civilians from the twentieth CBRNE Command tackle the world’s most harmful hazards in help of joint, interagency and allied operations.

Capt. Matthew E. Bertram, the commander of the 181st CBRN Firm, mentioned his firm is the forward-most CBRN unit in South Korea, serving at Camp Hovey, which is 15 miles from the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

The Double Dragons commander mentioned his firm is coaching with U.S. Military maneuver forces.

“Now we have already built-in with aviation, artillery and the rotational Stryker Brigade in theater,” mentioned Bertram, a local of Frederick, Maryland, who earned his bachelor’s diploma in microbiology from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, and a grasp’s diploma with a countering Weapons of Mass Destruction focus from Missouri State College in Springfield, Missouri.

Bertram additionally served as a fellow on the U.S. Military Medical Analysis Institute of Infectious Illness throughout the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

In keeping with Bertram, the Double Dragons served on the Protection CBRN Response Pressure, a home response job drive commanded by U.S. Northern Command’s Joint Job Pressure-Civil Help, from June 2019 to Could 2021.

The corporate then ready to deploy to South Korea with quite a few coaching occasions, together with a coaching rotation on the Nationwide Coaching Middle on Fort Irwin, California, and a ultimate firm analysis by the forty eighth Chemical Brigade.

The U.S. army has 28,500 service members stationed in South Korea who preserve safety on the Korean Peninsula and stability in Northeast Asia.

Bertram mentioned his Troopers have additionally had the chance to go to widespread cultural and leisure websites in South Korea.

“The 181st CBRN Firm has already embraced the tradition and surroundings of the Republic of Korea, conducting an organization hike up Soyosan Mountain and finishing a number of working occasions hosted by Camp Casey,” mentioned Bertram.