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. The Joint Service Aircrew Mask for ...

N.J., and chemical school at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. The Army uses the M45 as the hard-to-fit mask solution, Learn said. It comes in four mask sizes and five nose-cup sizes, which are interchangeable.

(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt ... masks — from the M50 Joint Service General Purpose Mask used in the most dangerous chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives environments ...

The US Army is developing technology for ... technologies that could be integrated into a next-gen mask, scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center developed a fan that is embedded ...

(Courtesy of U.S. Army Chemical Corps Museum ... During the early months of 1942, I seem to recall being issued a gas mask by the school staff. It was [for] but a short period of time, however.

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.

"With a gas mask, you don't have to exit that foxhole ... there have been thousands of chemical weapon attacks Former army chemical weapons commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said "it's obvious ...