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RCMD Overview

The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA) Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate (RCMD) provides centralized management and direction to the Department of Defense for the assessment and disposal of recovered chemical warfare materiel (RCWM) in a safe and environmentally sound manner.

RCMD leads the nation in the development and utilization of advanced technology to destroy RCWM. In 1997, the United States entered into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty requiring the destruction of chemical weapons.

In support of the CWC, RCMD maintains technology and personnel expertise to continue to destroy RCWM around the country.

RCMD personnel and equipment provide:

  • Tools, tactics and technologies to strengthen the Soldier’s knowledge base in the assessment and treatment of chemical warfare materiel (CWM)
  • Proven, transportable assessment technologies to quickly respond to planned and unplanned CWM recoveries on site, most often in response to CWM unearthed during range-clearing operations and from relic burial sites
  • On-site destruction of RCWM using proven technologies that safely and effectively neutralize chemical warfare materiel while protecting operators, the community and the environment
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RCMD Fact Sheets

  • RCMD Operations at Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD)

  • High Energy X-ray Generator

  • Single CAIS Access and Neutralization System (SCANS)

  • RCMD Operations at Dover Air Force Base

  • German Traktor Rockets at Pine Bluff Arsenal

  • RCMD Lifecycle of Deployment

  • Video: RCMD at PBA, PBEDS Campaign One

  • Characteristics of Mustard (Blister) Agents

  • RCMD Operations at Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA)

  • Chemical Agent Identification Sets Bottle Holder for EDS (Poster)

  • Pine Bluff Explosive Destruction System (PBEDS)

  • What are Chemical Agents and Chemical Weapons?

  • Munitions

  • Chemical Agent Identification Sets

  • Transportable Detonation Chamber (TDC)

  • Raman Spectrometer

  • Multiple Round Container (MRC)

  • Managing Secondary Waste

  • QL (Diisopropyl Aminoethylmethyl Phosphonite)

  • Interim Holding Facility (IHF)

  • Digital Radiography and Computed Tomography System (DRCT)

  • DF (Methylphosphonic Difluoride)

  • Chemical Weapons Destruction Expertise

  • Phosgene Carbonyl Chloride

  • Mobile Munitions Assessment System (MMAS)

  • Magnetic Induction Decontamination System (MIDS)

  • Large Item Transportable Access and Neutralization System (LITANS)

  • Former Production Facilities Demolition

  • Materiel Assessment Review Board (MARB)

  • Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy (PINS)

  • Explosive Destruction System (EDS) Overview

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Mountain

The mountain has been an element that has graced many of the past depot emblems, representing Pike’s Peak.

Missile

The Pershing Missile in the center represents one of the most prominent missions of the depot in the 1980s.

Hawk

The hawk represents native depot wildlife, the present and future mission of the environmental programs, and was also the name of one of the missile systems supplied by the depot during its missile mission in the 1950s and 60s.

Insignias

The branch insignia of both the U.S. Army Chemical Corps and Ordnance Corps represent the depot’s command structure through its history as both an ordnance and a chemical depot.

Colors & Text

The colors cobalt blue and yellow gold are representative of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. “Pueblo Depot” is representative of the installation throughout its history. “1942” is the date of establishment. “Safety” and “Service” capture the continued and historical depot missions.

Motto

The motto translates to “A Common Good.”

Sun

The rising sun denotes the dawning of a new day without chemical weapons and the organization’s mission to safely destroy chemical weapons stockpile, thus changing the future of modern warfare.

Wheat

The three stalks of wheat symbolize the harvest of hope that has been secured through industry, cultivation and abundance. It also refers to the unit’s chemical/biological, smoke/obscurant and support to Homeland security industrial base missions at Pine Bluff Arsenal.

Eagle

The double-headed eagle suggests the two CMA methods for stockpile chemical weapons disposal, incineration and neutralization. These methods’ roots are traced back to Project Eagle I (incinerating of mustard agents) and Eagle II (neutralizing nerve agents).

Olive Branch

The olive branch signifies peace and the Activity’s commitment to abide by the stipulations of the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty and assisting other nations.

Octagon

The octagon alludes to the eight original chemical weapons stockpile storage sites in the United States.