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Registered: 03 March 2006
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How is the carrier / bag for the m40 gas mask worn on the body? Is it attached to the belt? Also, is there a way to cram a canned filter in there, it does not seem like it will fit. Is the filter stored in the can or on the mask?
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Registered: 17 March 2006
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Generaly speaking, we wore the case on the left side, hooked onto the web belt so that the opening faced forward. This allows you to rapidly open the case with the left hand and grab the mask with the right. The filter should be on the mask, with the hood folded over the front of the mask and the head harness folded over the hood.
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"Curmudgeon" Location: Washtenaw County, Michigan
Registered: 21 January 2005
Posts: 2269
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We stored extra cigaretts in ours.
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it" DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, 1952 |
 Location: Camp Walker, ROK
Registered: 23 May 2006
Posts: 5
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Usually worn on the left hip as stated before. Or for some weird reason my last unit clipped it onto their IVA (flak jacket) and wore it under the left arm pit. Very uncomfortable, clumbersome, and ineffective IMO.
BUN As you are killing time, time is slowly killing you |
 Registered: 24 January 2005
Posts: 3885
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No set method for wearing it that I knew of, I always strapped it around my waist, so that it hung low on my left hip. And yeah, I kept lots of other stuff in there as well.
SEMPER FI The Gunny PROUD TO BE AN INFIDEL America is not at war. The Marines are at war, America is at the mall. |
 Location: Germany
Registered: 14 February 2006
Posts: 299
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We all crewed vehicles, and put it under our armpits as described above. Doesn't interfere with leg drop pistol holsters and MOLLE gear as much. We kept smokes and 2-ply TP in ours along with our masks.
In the event of being slimed, we usually figured we'd resort to the M9 pro-mask. "Brave Rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in Fire and Blood, and come out Steel!" |
 Registered: 10 October 2006
Posts: 6
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Its really a personal preference as to how to wear the carrier but by you asking if the mask should be carried with the filter on the mask makes me wonder as to where you accquired this mask because it certainly doesnt sound as if your in the military. I mean im sorry i might be biased here because im a 74D-Chemical Operations Specialst. So i went through OSUT and we did our time in the CS chamber there at the Chemical School but im sure you regardless of MOS have had to do at least some NBC training and im sure any of the other members here that were part of OIF I will tell you that they did NBC drills till they were about to go nuts. A true Warrior does not seek war, nor does he wish to do battle. He merely believes that it is honorable to cling to a worthy cause. It is noble to reach out to those who are weaker than himself and it is valiant to believe that many things are worth giving up everything for. -Phil Messina |
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Location: Germany
Registered: 14 February 2006
Posts: 299
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We spent the first 7 days in theater of OIF I in MOPP 4. I would've loved to have been gassed or slimed, just to make the torture mean something. *sob* I almost went bat shit crazy. Then I remembered, I am bat shit crazy by most accounts.
"Brave Rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in Fire and Blood, and come out Steel!" |
 Registered: 22 November 2006
Posts: 5
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Well that just goes to show how far out of the loop I`ve been. Chemical Operations Specialist is now 74D? Is AIT still at Fort McClellan? God I`m getting old. A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow. George S. Patton |
 Location: On an 'Overseas Contingency Operation'
Registered: 08 March 2005
Posts: 1120
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I remember being sooo disappointed that my MOPP gear was not waterproof... after sitting in the early morning dew...that wet backside really chapped my fanny (so to speak)
 My mask bag had a shoulder strap and a couple of different agent filters...but that was before the sippy straw those israelies came up with was adopted. I didn't have much faith in a prolonged exposure survival...my Grandfather was gassed in the trenches in France back in WWI. He told me they had gas masks for their horses and mules too...said they worked better than his...  This message has been edited. Last edited by: Weatherman1956, |
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