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I will BUY jump boots if necessary!
Aug. 3rd, 2021 05:11 pmOK, I'm seeing the "I can't breathe with a mask over my face!" crap going around again. If you see it, feel free to share this:
Hi. I served in the United States Army during the mid-80s, and what you see in this picture are four of my fellow soldiers operating in the Persian Gulf during Desert Shield. They are wearing what we called "MOPP-IV" which was the name for the maximum amount of chemical warfare protection we had. Each of these guys is wearing a thick, charcoal-impregnated multilayered suit over his regular uniform, big rubber boots over his regular boots, thick rubber gloves, and to top it off, an M-17A1 Protective Mask.
The M-17A1 was designed to keep things like nerve gas and other chemical weapons out of your lungs, and it worked. We trained using CS tear gas, which is stronger than what the cops normally use, and if you got your mask on, cleared, and sealed in time, you never knew the gas was there.
By the way, from a standing start with my mask in its bag on my left thigh, I could get my helmet and glasses off, deploy the mask, don it, clear it, and seal it in NINE SECONDS. Yes, I am bragging.
We spent a lot of time in masks and MOPP-IV because, in my day, we were expecting to be fighting the Warsaw Pact in Western Europe, where the use of chemical munitions was assumed. So I ran around Georgia in the summertime wearing this crap, and could still breathe. Hell, I volunteered for an endurance test in MOPP-IV doing basic skill tasks while never getting out of the suit (and if you want to know how we used the latrine, it's gross and requires a friend who owes you a lot of money.)
I lasted about 80 hours before my body quit due to heat build-up. But I never had any breathing problems!
These days, I do in fact have lung damage and carry a rescue inhaler. I was still able to spend several hours at a ballgame, go to the store, and generally live my life while wearing a mask!
Now, there are people, especially on the autism spectrum, who cannot tolerate a mask. That's a disability, and we should make accommodations where possible. But the rest of you apes? WEAR A FUCKING MASK OR I WILL PUT MY FUCKING SIZE 10 JUMP BOOTS UP YOUR FOURTH POINT OF CONTACT!
Hi. I served in the United States Army during the mid-80s, and what you see in this picture are four of my fellow soldiers operating in the Persian Gulf during Desert Shield. They are wearing what we called "MOPP-IV" which was the name for the maximum amount of chemical warfare protection we had. Each of these guys is wearing a thick, charcoal-impregnated multilayered suit over his regular uniform, big rubber boots over his regular boots, thick rubber gloves, and to top it off, an M-17A1 Protective Mask.
The M-17A1 was designed to keep things like nerve gas and other chemical weapons out of your lungs, and it worked. We trained using CS tear gas, which is stronger than what the cops normally use, and if you got your mask on, cleared, and sealed in time, you never knew the gas was there.
By the way, from a standing start with my mask in its bag on my left thigh, I could get my helmet and glasses off, deploy the mask, don it, clear it, and seal it in NINE SECONDS. Yes, I am bragging.
We spent a lot of time in masks and MOPP-IV because, in my day, we were expecting to be fighting the Warsaw Pact in Western Europe, where the use of chemical munitions was assumed. So I ran around Georgia in the summertime wearing this crap, and could still breathe. Hell, I volunteered for an endurance test in MOPP-IV doing basic skill tasks while never getting out of the suit (and if you want to know how we used the latrine, it's gross and requires a friend who owes you a lot of money.)
I lasted about 80 hours before my body quit due to heat build-up. But I never had any breathing problems!
These days, I do in fact have lung damage and carry a rescue inhaler. I was still able to spend several hours at a ballgame, go to the store, and generally live my life while wearing a mask!
Now, there are people, especially on the autism spectrum, who cannot tolerate a mask. That's a disability, and we should make accommodations where possible. But the rest of you apes? WEAR A FUCKING MASK OR I WILL PUT MY FUCKING SIZE 10 JUMP BOOTS UP YOUR FOURTH POINT OF CONTACT!
