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 Army tried to rush the M40 series mask into use during the gulf war, but decided it might cause controversy if some troops had the old mask and others had the modern one, said Army public ...

For example, PrepperStop.com carries U.S. military surplus M40 gas masks. It may be a measure of the preppers’ preparedness that those masks are sold out.

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.

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 ...

Recruits are given an M40 Field Protective Mask and put into a chamber that exposes them to nonlethal CS gas -- a standard riot control agent -- as part of their training, according to the Marine ...

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 ...

The United States delivered 1,000 gas masks to the Philippine Navy (PN), said the US Embassy in Manila on Saturday in a statement on its website. It explained that, the Joint United States ...

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 ...

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 ...