One of the hardest and most uncomfortable parts of Army basic training is the so-called Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical or NBC training, which teaches recruits to effectively use protective ...

The new streamlined gas mask, which some troops tried on for the first time last week, was more comfortable than the older types but looked no less repulsive. Goggling eyeglasses frame a swollen nose ...

The other day, Lynn Brown bought a gas mask, a canteen and three olive-green chemical warfare suits at the downtown Army Navy Trade Mart. She didn't even flinch when the store owner told her the price ...

In an interesting twist, more civilians are buying something once limited to war zones. Tactical gas masks may not be on the shopping list for every Florida consumer, but the U.S. market for gas masks ...