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U.S. military sent 3 N-teams to offer help /snip After its deployment to Japan, the AFRAT checked radiation levels at places that included Sendai Airport, which was heavily damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, to secure the safety of U.S. military personnel. The AFRAT is now on standby at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, which hosts the headquarters of U.S. Forces Japan. The Army's Area Medical Laboratory (AML), whose mission is to assess chemical, biological and nuclear hazards, was also dispatched to Japan in late March. It conducted surveys of radioactive contamination and returned to the United States....

CBIRF Responds to Ricin Scare, Helps Secure Federal BuildingsSubmitted by: Marine Corps NewsStory Identification Number: 2004211151659Story by Cpl. Clinton Firstbrook HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS WASHINGTON (Feb. 8, 2004) -- For the first time since the 2001 anthrax attacks, a team of the Marine Corps' Chemical Biological Incident Response Force was called into action Feb. 3. A 161-member team, headquartered at Indian Head, Md., responded to a call from the capitol police, after a postal worker at the Dirksen Senate Office Building found ricin in a mail sorter Feb. 2. The ricin, a highly toxic chemical derived from the castor bean,...