Civilian scientists from the United States Army are being sent to identify suspected chemical warfare stuff

Civilian chemists in the United States Army defend US troops by providing combatant commanders with chemical and explosive forensic analysis.

Army civilian chemists from the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Analytical and Remediation Activity (CARA) deploy across the world to identify a wide range of chemical warfare agents (CWAs), CWA precursors, CWA breakdown products, hazardous industrial chemica....