The Marines are updating their scary-looking M40 gas masks with a newer, more comfortable and streamlined mask that borrows from the special operations world where vision, low-drag ergonomics and ...

The M17 mask, an earlier model used by most Army troops during the gulf war, was first fielded in the 1950s. It was designed to protect soldiers from certain types of gas, not biological agents.

I think I’ve figured out why mask mandates grate so. It isn’t that people are unconscientious objectors, refusing to do what’s right for society out of mere petulance. We are required to ...

PINE BLUFF, Ark. -- Optimizing production at a premium cost is the standard not the exception in the Directorate of Chemical and Biological Defense with the development of the M40 mask. Since ...

A new workout accoutrement is appearing more frequently at the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall gym and elsewhere: sleek masks that look like modified M40 gas masks -- streamlined, high-tech and ...

U.S. Marines are trained to use gas masks in possible chemical or biological attacks. Recruits are given an M40 Field Protective Mask and put into a chamber that exposes them to nonlethal CS gas ...

U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, execute different movements to test the seal on the M40 gas mask in the confidence chamber on Marine Corps Base Camp ...

FORT LEE, Va. (Sept. 22, 2011)-Some things are slow to change.The CS gas (2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile) and its effects, are perennial subjects of the classic war story that has been told by at ...

Clarissa Ward of Fox News tries on her new protective mask, tested against both traditional agents and many toxic industrial chemicals: Back at the bureau, we were issued gas masks and told what ...

A driver has been killed in a crash involving a gas tanker and two vans on the M40 in Oxfordshire. The accident happened at about 0615 GMT close to junction nine of the southbound section of the ...

M50-M51 Gas Mask. Categories Army ... The mask system replaces the M40/M42 series of field protective masks for the Army and Marine Corps ground and combat vehicle operations, ...

U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, execute different movements to test the seal on the M40 gas mask in the confidence chamber on Marine Corps Base Camp ...