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produced its last system. Te shelter is a mobile, self-contained, rapidly deploy- able, chemically and biologically protected shelter that provides a contamination-free, environmentally controlled medical treat- ment facility for U.S. Army Role I and II medical units. (In DOD's "Emergency War Surgery," there are five levels, or roles, of care. Role I is the lowest and provides immediate first aid on the scene. Role II increases the capabilities and includes limited inpatient care. Role V is the highest.)
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Te shelter is versatile enough to be used by field surgeons, physician assistants and field medics for initial triage, medi- cal treatment and possible evacuation. Te shelter does not provide the medical
f ter more than 20 years of production, the Chemical Biological Protective Shel- ter (CBPS) program has
equipment that is used for treatment. It provides the shelter; the heating, ventila- tion and cooling equipment; the chemical biological, radiological and nuclear filtra- tion equipment; generators for powering the system components; means for stor- age of standard Army medical equipment sets; and the vehicle used for transporta- tion and mobility.
GIMME (BETTER) SHELTER Production of the first variant began in 1999. It provided medical shelter system support to the Army and Marine Corps units in the then-active conflicts in Iraq and Kuwait. In 2006, the development of the second variant commenced to address user requests for added capability. Produc- tion of the second variant began in 2010 and continued through 2020.
Recent shifts in Army modernization priorities ended CBPS production in
order to redirect funding to these higher- priority efforts.
Te CBPS effort began in the late 1980s in response to the need for a replace- ment for the 1960s-era M51 Collective Protection Shelter (CPS) system. The trailer-mounted M51 suffered from excessive deployment time requirements, minimal floor space in which to perform medical operations, and a lack of a dedi- cated prime mover. Often, the M51 CPS trailer would simply be left behind in the motor pool since military units lacked enough available vehicles to tow the trailer into the conflict area. Te CBPS effort addressed these issues by designing an integrated system that was mounted on a Humvee, which could be quickly deployed, provided its own onboard system power generation, increased the usable floor space and improved overall system reliability.
SHOWING OFF
The CBPS on display at the 2019 Army-Navy football game. (Photo by Stephen Lusher, Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense)
For more than 20 years, the CBPS program produced 496 CBPS systems that provide the warfighter with a clean, toxin-free workspace in which medical operations could be performed during both normal operations as well as during chemical and biological
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