[RummyChick]

So maybe someone here that was in the military can tell me how you would go about putting on a gas mask, sealing it , and clearing it in the 9 second window with this big of a beard?


Or are they cut some slack because they aren't going out in the battlefield.

[Grubwart]

Apparently it was done with the case of Captain Rattan. With regards to the “Vaseline”, I cannot answer that as the HuffPo article makes no mention of the Vaseline or any other substance being used on the beard.

Only the army.mil article makes mention of Vaseline and that was with regards to the Captains Uncle who served in the Indian army.