You were equipped to face a Soviet army that was felt likely to use nerve agents on a large scale. Are you trying to say Iraq was similarly equipped to face us?
And they had the real thing, not training injectors.
Sorry, I´m still in the Reserves here, and we still train our soldiers in NBC-self-protection. In basic training, they get training injectors, but my comrades in Kosovo, Afghanistan, etc have the real atropine! This is not a cold-war scenario, this is standard for western armies. Isn´t here a active US soldier or reservist who can say how it´s in the US armed forces?