FORT HOOD, Texas -- The latest chemical protective mask earmarked to replace the current mask used by U.S. Army fixed wing aviators was tested here recently.

Army researchers have developed a simple, comfortable, wrap-style respiratory protective mask for protection against riot control agents, and the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center is ...

As American troops prepare for a possible war with Iraq, the Army is downplaying an internal report that says more than half of its gas masks and nearly all of its chemical weapons alarms were ...

One of the hardest and most uncomfortable parts of Army basic training is the so-called Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical or ...

If you ask a soldier why beards are banned, they'll tell you it's because you can't seal your gas mask with one. But that could change. The Army is in the midst of studying the effects of facial ...

Army engineers are designing a chemical-biological protective mask that will have it's own built in fan. Service officials recognized how hot the current masks can make soldiers and want to offer ...

Last November, the troops had received seven Fox vehicles for use on exploratory missions to check in advance for chemical agents. The old M-17 mask, issued to most Army soldiers during the gulf ...

The Army says that test studies using a modified, commercial version of the M50 joint service general purpose mask, which replaced the M40 Field Protective Mask in the US armed forces in December ...

The US Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) has developed a new combination of helmet and respirator mask that will keep soldiers safer and more comfortable when buttoned down ...

The U.S. Army's Chemical Biological Center just ran an extensive round of tests that officials say has revealed the best fabric to use for making homemade face coverings for preventing the spread ...

The Army has been forced to defend against charges that the gas mask carried by Army and Marine ground troops — critical gear needed to counter a possible chemical attack by Iraq — is inadequate.