Spouses Come Out to play at Jane Wayne Day

Spouses Come Out to play at Jane Wayne Day
Marine Corps News | November 13, 2007

Navy Annex Stumpneck, Indian Head, Md. -- A typical Jane Wayne Day in the Marine Corps consists of spouses firing a machine gun or spending time in their Marines’ workspaces, but not at Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, II Marine Expeditionary Force. CBIRF spouses gathered here Oct. 11, to get a taste of what their Marines do on a daily basis.

Spouses raced against each other in teams of two by dragging mannequins to simulate casualties, demonstrating what CBIRF Marines must do to extract victims from a collapsed structure.

Spouses also learned how to go through a force protection lane, a decontamination line for CBIRF personnel.

They also ventured through confined spaces in “the pancake house”, a confined-space trainer Marines go through during CBIRF Basic Course.

“It’s easy to go home and say what I do, but until you actually get into an M-40 gas mask, (put on mission oriented protective posture gear), drag ‘bodies’ and go to (the decontamination line), you can’t have a good appreciation for it,” said Gunnery Sgt. Rod Shriver, Company A gunnery sergeant.

Spouses donned chemical protective overgarments, M-40 field protective masks and dragged mannequins, which helped put the Marines’ CBC training into perspective.


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and perhaps allieviate fears. I know this is the case in the sub force.