Chemical protection
Dave Tahija
location: Butte, Montana, en route from San Francisco to Juneau
listening to: Train - Save me, San Francisco
registered: 1999.12.27
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You might want to swing by a library and read the article in the December 2002 Harper's Magazine by Anthony Swofford, who was a Marine in the Gulf War. He has a pretty low opinion of the Mission Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) gear they were issued. His outfit wound up wearing their suits in a football game staged for some reporters and gleefully burning them afterwards. The things are too hot to do much of any physical activity in, let alone fight, especially in the desert. The Marine who torched them said some final words as he dropped the match: "May God please save us, because these MOPP suits won't."Any chemical protective gear must be airtight and is hot as hell to wear. I've worn some of this stuff in hazardous cleanup training and can't imagine trying to do anything in it for more than a few minutes, an hour at the most, even in cool conditions with limited activity.
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You might want to swing by a library and read the article in the December 2002 Harper's Magazine by Anthony Swofford, who was a Marine in the Gulf War. He has a pretty low opinion of the Mission Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) gear they were issued. His outfit wound up wearing their suits in a football game staged for some reporters and gleefully burning them afterwards. The things are too hot to do much of any physical activity in, let alone fight, especially in the desert. The Marine who torched them said some final words as he dropped the match: "May God please save us, because these MOPP suits won't."Any chemical protective gear must be airtight and is hot as hell to wear. I've worn some of this stuff in hazardous cleanup training and can't imagine trying to do anything in it for more than a few minutes, an hour at the most, even in cool conditions with limited activity.
