Originally posted by tubularbills
I just got gassed
tear-gassed that is.
got issued chemical/biological warfare uniforms and had the training.
it was kinda funy because there were three LTs, including myself, and i was the last to go....so i'm watching my friends take their gas mask off and get blasted and look like , and i'm standing there thinking, "oh man, how bad is this ?"
then as i'm taking my hood off, i bumped the mask strap a little, so it came kinda loose....so i could taste the before i even got the mask off....then i pulled it off and it was full force on my face.
it wasn't really all *that* bad. mainly just felt like my eyes were extremely dry and so it hurt to blink. and my nose ran quite a bit. could have been worse.
the guy who gave us the training said @ his tech-school they actually did that same training, but w/ real VX stuff (like what you saw in the movie "The Rock"). crazy. but these guys know their stuff - it's pretty impressive.
anyways, i don't have to do that again for 20 months! unless i get deployed, which is highly unlikely. |