Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American military gas mask, the M-17, was designed in 1955 and has not been significantly improved since. It has complicated straps and a hood that take time to sort out when delay can be fatal. Its filters are good for an hour or more in mustard gas but cannot be changed while the mask is being worn...
...most outspoken critics of U.S. anti-gas equipment is Evan Koslow, former editor of the technical journal Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense & Technology. He says the M-17 mask "gives very limited gas protection" compared with those produced by other NATO countries, most of which are more modern. He also claims that the protective clothing the U.S. uses can be penetrated by chemical agents...
...Pentagon denies those charges. The M-17 mask and suit, says an Army spokesman, "will protect our soldiers." Martin Calhoun, an analyst at the independent Center for Defense Information in Washington, agrees: "The M-17 does its job." A study by the Government Accounting Office in 1986 found that while U.S. gear was old and bulky, it offered sufficient protection...
...store is also enjoying record sales in war paraphenalia to civilians gas mask sales at the chain of three Army-Navy supply stores in Boston have skyrocketed from the "occasional sale" to more than 200 sold last week. Koster said...
...missile attack in Israel and Saudi Arabia. Some correspondents learned the hard way the pitfalls of that approach. For many viewers, the week's most memorable moment came not when General Powell unveiled his diagrams of damaged Iraqi targets but when CNN's Charles Jaco scrambled for his gas mask on the air in Saudi Arabia, in the erroneous belief that he had whiffed poison gas during an alert in Dhahran...