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Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Items such as gas masks, entrenching tools, compasses, even (early on anyway) winter sleeping bags were issued on an as need, per exercise basis. It kept the crap you had to cart around to a minimum and the QM always had whatever was needed, in the quantity actually needed.

The only unit where we were issued the protective mask as basic issue was in Korea. At all the other units, it was issued only when we went to the field or for special training. In Korea, we also had to keep real MOPP suits and filters in vacuum-packed foil in out vehicles, and they were checked more-or-less monthly by one of the NBC sergeants to make sure the seal was intact and that the mask was being kept in working order.