Quote History Quoted:Lol, well, you most certainly will die without water. We used the hydration system quite often when I was in. Now, if they could figure out how you could eat.
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That was
the thing, hydration…
They know that the hydration system doesn’t work or will be contaminated. In an actual gas attack, or similar event, everything is contaminated. So you’re just going to end up dead, but I guess you’ll die a hydrated death. In theory you’ll also not have a great time exposing your dangleydoodles or buttocks to such agents. However, they’re also of the opinion that MOPP is pretty much useless too.
In the event of a CBRN attack, your PPE is designed only to keep you alive enough to hopefully unalive the other guys (although it’s a safe bet they’re going to die too, if within small arms distance of the contaminant) before you keel over.
If you’re worried about stuff that won’t insta-kill you, like a smoke-device, riot gas, etc, then you’re good.
I have it on good authority that war is hell, and many good men will die for nothing.