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Hey bud... I was your counterpart in the US military. There are extensively trained specialists who do that (and more) full time; however, they're assigned to Division level and higher to keep them gainfully employed. In smaller units (brigade, battalion, company), it becomes an additional duty to one's primary military occupation. That duty falls first to volunteers and then to appointees as necessary. I volunteered as a "unit" specialist.
Unit specialists go through an abbreviated version of the full-time occupational course. It's conducted on a local military installation rather than at the proponent school. Still, a lot of stuff is covered;
Equipment & supply inventory, storage, inspection and first echelon maintenance (e.g. disassembly-reassembly of gas masks and decontamination apparatus to replace worn/expired parts).
Set-up and monitoring of early warning detectors.
Attack yield estimates.
Flash report and follow-up report formats.
Contaminated casualty evacuation procedures.
Nuclear, biological, and chemical dissemination (fallout/contagion/drift) predictions.
Monitoring continuing exposure in contaminated areas using chemical & biological tests, dosimeters and radiac meters.
Set-up and supervision of a unit decontamination line.
NATO marking of contaminated areas.
Monitoring for residual effects of exposure, outside of contaminated areas.
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One tends to not forget these performance measures, having been drilled into our psyches as being of the utmost importance.
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