Location: Slovenia
Subordinate to: Slovenia Army
Description: As of late 2003, the Slovenian Army appears to include at least one unit dedicated to NBC activities. This unit has been equipped with new gas masks since 2001. It may have been re-equipped with more modern detection and decontamination equipment since 1992, but there are no specific indications that this is the case.
Key Sources: Igor Mekina, "Slovenia and its Army: Expansion as Business," AIM Press, 25 August 2001, <http://www.aimpress.ch/dyn/trae/archive/data/
200108/10825-001-trae-lju.htm>; The 18th Nuclear Biological Chemical (NBC) Protection Battalion, http://www.pomurski-sejem.si/Angelsko/vojska_strok.htm.
Location: Croatia
Subordinate to: Army of the Republic of Croatia
Size: Uncertain
Primary Function: NBC defense including detection, protection, and decontamination for armed forces and civil defense applications.
Description: This branch provides NBC training and defensive support to the Croatian armed forces. The branch was established following independence in 1991.
Key Sources: Website of the Armed Forces of the Federation of Serbia and Montenegro, <http://www.vj.yu/english/en_struktura/Vidovi/kov/abho.htm>.
