Gas! Gas! Gas! NBC Question.?

Actually the regulation says...

1.Stop Breathing and Close your Eyes

2. Don your mask and other gear

3. Sound the alarm.

See FM 3-11 NBC Operations 3-11.4 (NBC Protection)

See FM 3-7 NBC Handbook

Whoever told you this is wrong and needs remedial training. I would suggest talking with your NCO about this because teaching this could put soldiers lives in danger. Please address this with your chain of command and NCO support channel. Please. It's important.

Also, there are multiple ways to sound the alarm... hand and arm signals, yelling, metal on metal sounds... etc.

I went though the NBC course in BCT. You always put your mask on first, then sound the alarm. They may not hear you very well, but there is a hand signal especially for that reason. You shout gas, gas, gas while doing one of several gas alarm signals. So even if they can't hear what you say, the fact that you are wearing your mask and giving the proper signal means there is gas. Your instructor was wrong.

By the way, for those who think the mask is a mute point due to absorbtion through the skin. We are issued charcoal pads and wear full body suits. The charcoal absorbs the chemical on the exposed parts.

Mask yourself first properly clearing and sealing your mask then give the vocal alarm while giving the arm and hand signal. Everybody in your squad should have cued into you donning your mask, the vocal alarm is only re-enforcement for anybody not paying attention to what is going on. The Arm and Hand Signal is to warn the elements trailing you in the distance. End of discussion!

Your question is 'MOOT'. The truth is that by the time you noticed that you may have been exposed to Chemical or Biological agents, you're dead. It won't matter when or whether you bother to yell out anything at all 'cause you're dead. All the people around you will be dead. Oh, sure, it may take you and them awhile to actually die, but you're dead. Your only chance for survival is the remote censors: that they work at all, that the results are interpreted correctly and that the warning is sounded in enough time to prevent your being exposed. After that, your survival depends on whether there is a Toxic Free Area (TFA) for you to go to to safely change out your suit and mask.

Well since this is my job and i teach CBRN which is the new name not NBC. you mask first then you yell gas, gas, gas and at the same time you are giving the gas hand and arm signal so other soldiers can see you and if the attack is from an airplane you would use same arm signal but yell spray, spray, spray

Lets be honest here, gas masks are good up to a point, reality is that unless you have advance warning to put a NBC suit on as well that breathing the gas in will be the least of your problems as it is absorbed through the skin (mustard gas etc). Also anywhere that there is a gas type situation, there would be audible alarms and senors to alert the local are of an attack

in the time it takes to shout "gas gas gas "(less then a second,try it) you are not going to die,better to give a clear warning then a muffled grunt that is not going to do anything,your not the first to bring this subject up as ive heard it many times when training recruits but frankly it does not work that way,good question though

Actually I learned to say the words without breathing in gas, so I could say my name, and rank in the gas chamber without inhaling any gas, one drill SGT caught on and made me say it again, RATS, I started choking, anyways, you can train yourself, no matter how they teach you to, not inhale, remember Clinton's statement on pot, he put it to him lips, but never inhaled-LOL, I am pretty sure I was taught to dawn my mask first and then sound the alarm, but I know that it is hard for anyoen to hear you, thats why you are suppose to flap your arms like you are doing a weighlifting workout, to draw attention to yourself and so they know that you are saying "GAS, GAS,GAS."

I could think of some co-workers where I could have used a gas mask and yelled Gas gas gas! but in training sessions like that it's best to keep your opinions to yourself.

The Canadian army had/has a slight modification to the "Gas gas gas warning. It goes: "Officers stand fast! Remainder - Gas, gas gas!