Exactly who is undergoing this training? I mean, if it was every unit in the Iraqi army, that would be, well, strange. Spending 1/3 of your training time on chemical warfare is just bizarre.
If those were specially-designated chamical platoons, then that's probably about right because that's their specialty. I imagine our NBC platoons probably do at least the same.
They were Chemical Platoon and other members of the Iraqi military, however it was the Chemical platoons that conducted the training.
Please keep in mind that Iraq was not supposed to be treated like any other army when it comes to Chemical Warfare including his Chemical Platoon training. They were not supposed at all to have any Chemical Weapons agent even if it is a small quantity. We simply cannot compare our NBC platoon training to that of the Iraqi and assume that the Iraqi have the same right of training as our NBC units.
As I said before the Chemical training top secret memos in 1994, 1996 were written on the back of papers that has English text in the front. The English texts were about standard construction information using water and cement, etc... This was clearly a deception scheme by the Iraqis to hide the information of Chemical training programs from UN inspectors, because in that period the UN inspectors were still in Iraq because the UN inspectors were in Iraq up to 1998 and they were kicked after that and not return until November 2002.