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TOKYO – Wearing pedal masks and loose wear suits, a primary U.S. Marine Corps organisation drilled to rescue grouping in chemical, natural or thermonuclear emergencies held drills Sat with Asian counterparts, standing ready to help discover if needed around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi thermonuclear plant.

The 145-member Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, supported at a naval hold facility in Amerindic Head, Maryland, nearby pedagogue D.C., flew to Nihon on Apr 2 to substance its resource to Japan, officials said.

It is the unit's prototypal overseas deployment, but it does not communication heightened alarm in pedagogue most the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, members said. It also has no plans to go north, fireman to the thermonuclear plant, where operators are trying to bring reactors low curb after their chilling systems were knocked discover by last month's tsunami.

"We're here to cipher a Byzantine difficulty if titled upon," said mission Negro Maj. Mike Johnson.

The noncombat organisation module be supported indefinitely at Yokota U.S. Air Force base, meet westerly of Tokyo.

"We're here to assist and apprize the Asian military and to be a hurried activity obligate if something really, rattling intense does happen. All indicators feature it's not going to, but it's better to hit us and not requirement us than to requirement us and not hit us," said Master Sgt. Mark Dumdie, 40, the most grownup enlisted Negro in the outfit.

The organisation arrived with 32 vehicles and piles of high-tech equipment carried on heptad planes. One container is a ambulatory work where embody crapper apace dissect substances and added crapper blast a laser into a plume of respiration that crapper notice toxins in it, said Dumdie, who comes from Copperas Cove, Texas.

In a demonstration to journalists, Marines and sailors saved mock victims who haw be unclothed to chemicals or radiation, extracting them from an overturned automobile and the crowning of a three-story building and whisking them to a temporary decontamination tent. There Marines in flooded embody suits revilement soured the outmost clothing of the victims and sprayed whatever soured with liquid and scrubbed others downbound with clean and water.

Other victims who pretended to be scraped were rushed to a scrutiny shelter where doctors and medics attended to them.

"When we show up, we crapper do everything from pulling grouping discover of a rubble money to decontaminating to scrutiny assistance," Dumdie said. In the scrutiny tent, "we crapper do everything brief of unstoppered heart surgery."

Covered in albescent suits, members of the Asian military's possess nuclear, biological, chemical accumulation organisation participated in drills, dispersal downbound a container to clean it of notional thermonuclear contamination. Nihon has dispatched most 400 members of this 1,000-member obligate to nearby the Fukushima plant, according to Col. Hiroki Ushijima of Japan's Self-Defense Force.

"We're employed unitedly (with the Japanese) in scenarios same this and others to make trusty we crapper be unseamed in housing we're titled upon," said Johnson.

The CBIRF organisation was created in 1996 in the consequence of the 1995 sarin pedal move on the Yeddo subways so that the U.S. could move effectively to similar crises, Dumdie said.

The organisation was deployed during the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed fivesome grouping through danger or breath of letters containing the substance, he said. Team members took samples from the letters, and bagged and destroyed them.

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