Hehe I held my breath and put on a good acting job...slid out out there and laughed at my bud who got a real heavy dose. He hated me
This was USAF though.
At the academy, we had to walk around in it for about 5 minutes with the mask on (which really got your pits and peculiars burnin'!), then take off the mask and recite our name, social security number, hometown, what kind of car we drove and then to get out the door, you had to answer "Yankees or Mets?" The instructor guarding the door was a Mets fan and the one asking the questions was a Yankees fan. I said "METS!" and dove for the door before instructor #1 could make me put my mask back on and get back in line.
We do it to simulate and acquaint us to what its like to be in a building where CS has been used to control the inmates and teach us how to cope with it, not to give us confidence in the mask like it is in the military. I had no worries about it having gone through it several times in the Army, but it was a LOT worse that time through. And if I go through WTO or CERT school, I have to spend about a week doing that.