The Marines are updating their scary-looking M40 gas masks with a newer, ... Marine Corps Fielding New M50 Gas Mask. Published September 15, 2010.

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.

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 ...

Elevation masks can be adjusted to simulate altitude changes from 3,000 feet to 12,000 feet, but they don't actually reduce the amount of oxygen in the air as a real altitude adjustment would.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...