hahaha.... less than one minute apart.
“.....less than one minute apart.”
When you teach the same techniques, and they are followed in a certain order, the results can be consistent. Having only a couple of seconds difference while doing an action to stay alive is a lifetime. If done right you’ll live, if you go over around 13 seconds donning and clearing, there is a strong chance you’ll be poisoned and will need the atropine/2-pam chloride injector, possibly more than once. This is why after each injection you poke and bend it through the uniform breast pocket to show how much has been injected. But depending on the inhalation, it may not make any difference anyway.
But this is for nerve agents. Blister agents, like mustard gas, will also effect the skin. First step is to block it from the airways. The mask accomplishes that by protecting the eyes and mouth with the proper filter. The hood covers the main exposed critical areas of the ears, neck and scalp. Problem with that stuff is it is slower in acting and may not have been detected. The first symptoms are in the eyes and that can be an hour later. Safe to say vesicants are nasty stuff.
rwood