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PREFACE
The first edition of the “Vector Control Equipment
Performance Check List (PCL),” developed in the early to
mid-1980’s at the Navy Disease Vector Ecology and
Control Center (NDVECC), Alameda, was intended to
provide a sampling of representative types of pesticide
dispersal equipment, to be used primarily as a training tool
for active duty and civilian DoD Pesticide Applicators.
The second edition, published in 1993 at the NDVECC,
Alameda, continued with this same philosophy and added
many new pesticide sprayers to the list.
This third edition, begun at the NDVECC, Bangor in 2001,
has survived in draft form until this current May 2006
published edition by the Navy Environmental and
Preventive Medicine Unit Five (NEPMU-5). During this
period, many new sprayers, driven by innovative
technologies, have also been added. Although some
sprayers from previous editions of this pocket guide are no
longer assigned a current National Stock Number (NSN),
they have, nevertheless, been included, as active duty
personnel deployed throughout the world may, under
various circumstances, depend on those still available in
the field. The intent of this latest version continues to
reinforce the need to enhance all DoD pesticide applicator
disease vector/pest training platforms with the highest
quality support materials and “hands-on” performance-
based field exercises and to best prepare PMT’s and other
active duty personnel charged with global Force Health
Protection.
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