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Purpose. This instruction provides guidance for U.S. military resources supporting U.S. government foreign consequence management (FCM) operations in response to a deliberate or inadvertent CBRN incident.

Applicability

This instruction applies to DOD support to FCM operations as part of the USG response to CBRN incidents abroad.

This instruction does not apply to other DOD incident response operations that may occur prior to, concurrently with, or following FCM operations, as outlined in the annexes and appendices in references.

This instruction does not apply to planning and conducting consequence management (CM) operations within the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa, Jarvis Island, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Freely Associated States Under the Compacts of Free Association, which include the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the U.S. possessions of Wake Island, Midway Island, Johnson Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef.

This instruction does not apply to acts of nature or acts of man that do not involve CBRN materials (including toxic industrial materials).

The Department of Defense retains primary responsibility for response to CBRN incidents that occur and the effects of which are contained on U.S. military installations abroad, unless specifically stated otherwise in applicable international agreements. DODI 2000.18 (reference a) applies to CBRN incidents on DOD installations.

This instruction does not apply to CBRN incidents that are a direct result of U.S. military operations in a foreign country where the Department of State (DOS) does not have an established presence.