 Well, I'll tell you what man, that gas chamber. Today on Airman Vision, we asked new airman, what was your experience in the gas chamber? Also, if you're a new airman and you wanna get involved with videos like this, use the contact information in the description below. It was fun. Sea burn was a lot of fun. It was like our quote day off from basic training. We went to this different area and it was like zero night again. We're like, hurry up, get off the bus, get in this room, sit down. And it was like, we're gonna teach you what this is. My instructor that we had that day was really passionate about the mop gear. I believe it was like two, 300 people. And you have two minutes to try and get everyone to get one pair of trousers, one coat, boots, gloves, mask, mask carrier, just a whole mop gear. You have two minutes to get everyone. So you have to like convey or belt it through. I did not enjoy it versus people who thought it was very, you know, it was cape. It might be, in my experience, it was pretty hard. It wasn't hard. If you have asthma, it'd be hard, but if you have asthma, you also wouldn't be in the air force. I actually really enjoyed the gas chamber. It was a change of events. It wasn't just class or PT or marching around. They're yelling, making sure we're doing everything correctly. Pretty tough. For security forces, I was OC Sprayd, which was 10 times worse than the gas chamber. Oh, the infamous gas chamber. The day I found out what my job was going to be, I knew nothing about my job till I talked to the MTIs there and I said, hey, this is my job. And they're like, oh, this is your job. Everything that we're doing today is your job. The gas chamber is your job. It kind of like opened my eyes and I was like, holy crap, I had no idea I would have to deal with this. I had no idea I can be here teaching in the future. It was one of those things that I was actually pretty pumped for. Everyone thought I was crazy, but it was one of those things, like you know it's gonna suck, but it's kind of that military rite of passage that everyone has to do, even though you know it's gonna be awful. And it was. Well, I'll tell you what, man, that gas chamber put the fear in my heart when I saw everyone coming out, hey, when my gun is straight line, hold your arms up, breathing, people are like just freaking dying. I could see their soul just leaving their body through their nose and through coughing up a lung and all these other things. So I braced myself for the worst walking into that chamber. A lot of people in our flight actually got sick throughout BMT. Then leading up to the gas chamber, you're nervous about it, you're scared, but you go in, it burns, burns your skin. The respirators do work, the gas masks do work. And you will see that, but as soon as you take that mask off and they make you yell something or do jump and jacks, whatever they tell your flight to do, it's not gonna be fun at the time, but a lot of people actually had, you know, the sickness that they had, like from colds and stuff, it was cleared out. And a lot of people felt better afterwards, but in the moment, the gas chamber is not fun at all. Right, I had the whole gas mask on and so I walked in and I'm like, back of my neck really burns. It felt like I had like a really bad sunburn. So I'm like, okay, here we go, right? They're like, all right, we want you to do XXX amount of jumping jacks. So they definitely want us to breathe that stuff. And they were like, we're gonna give it to these guys. So I did the jumping jacks, whatever. When we tell you two, you're gonna remove the gas mask from your face and you're gonna give your reporting statement and no one's gonna leave this chamber until you give your freaking reporting statement. So I'm like, Jesus, if one person messes this up, like, it's a wrap, it's a wrap, bro. One guy actually decided to remove the mask before anyone even told him anything. And so like, you're like, put your mask back on. So this guy already got a whiff of it. As soon as I removed my mask, I'm like, here we go. I inhale, I'm expecting like freaking Agent Orange from Vietnam. I thought it was a wrap from me, I thought it was over. I inhaled, gave my reporting statement and nothing happened. I did not cough, nothing happened. I mean, my neck burned, my skin burned, but I didn't cough or anything. And I'm like, okay, this is great. I wasn't gonna complain about it. I gave my reporting statement and they actually kept me in there. Got him. Until I coughed. So I had to fake coughing. No, no, no, no, no. I don't know what happened. I guess it's thanks to all the freaking chemicals in today's fast food or something that just made me immune. But the gas chamber was definitely memorable, but I survived. So I guess I'm just immune or like a mutant turtle or something. The gas chamber was pretty rough for me just because I didn't properly fit my gas mask. I had a little leak in it. So as soon as I went in, I could already feel the gas going through my mask and I was already struggling from the beginning. When I went through it, I went through it with two of my really good friends from my flight and one was right across from me. And as we took our mask off and held it on our chest, I looked at him and he was just like suffocating, breathing like, like the whole time. And then my other friend, Joe, was over to the left of me and I saw him and his eyes were squinted. And then as you come out, they have a camera right there, right? When you walk out the door and turn right and then they'll try to catch everyone like as they're crying and coughing and throwing up and all that. And like, so I walk out and I see the camera and I just smiled at it like with a big grin. I was like, like one of the funny goofy smiles. And yeah, that's how my gas chamber experience was. It was very funny. I was part of the last group to went in to go in the gas chamber and they just popped a new pill. I was like, oh great. Now we're gonna get the fourth strain. My wingman who was across from me didn't really listen to the instructions. It took off his mask full on and he felt the effect right away. It was hilarious. And he had tried to put that thing right back on. So that's another thing. Just listen, listen to instructions. Now we get out of there faster. It was not fun. I was like crying and tearing up as I got out. So you go in, you have your gas mask on and they light the fire and the smoke starts going everywhere and they tell you to take the mask off and as soon as you take the mask off, it hits you and you're coughing. You can't breathe and you're snot drilling on your face. And after like 30 seconds, they let you out and it wears off in about a minute. So it was a experience for sure. I don't know necessarily a good one, but. They teach you that sense of urgency there because in the event that something were to happen in case of a bomb were to go off or you need to hurry up or you need to go because your life depends on it, you have that training and basic training because if you need to go, you realize that, hey, something's about to happen. It's about to go back. We got to go. So that's what they teach you a lot of that basic training set, that sense of urgency. Also, you cannot waste time at basic training. We had our first MR, give me a sec. Well, let's say that I didn't have to do it twice because I ended up doing it twice that I had my mask on. I was the first person in and then by the time I made it to the other side of the room, the CS gas was already in my mask and I could feel it. So I was already choking with my mask on. They kicked me out. They gave me a new mask. They sent me back in and another group. This was like at the end. Well, I ended up taking my mask off before they told me to do so. And then I started choking again because I didn't have my mask and there's CS gas in the room. They told me to put my mask back on. I put my mask on. And then they're like, all right, take it off again. So then I take it off, but I'm still choking. I was choking already inside the mask anyways. And then I was the last one to leave the room when they told us to leave. So yeah, I got like a dumb old dosage of the gas chamber, not fun at all. But now that is my job, surprise, cheers. Gas chamber wasn't too ridiculously hard. For some people, it definitely hit him harder. I was towards the back. So I was one of the last people in and then they had us take our mask off after doing our five, six, seven jumping jacks, whatever it was. Or you had to breathe while you're in there. So you felt the effects of the tear gas in your body as one guy took his mask off, put it to his chest, he screamed the F word extremely loud. The instructor heard it and they made a stay in there for at least another minute with our masks off, just staying in there, coughing, eyes watering, skins burning. Definitely fun for me, I would say. And then y'all run out, look like an airplane. People tripping over themselves, spitting on each other, quite great to see. Once you're done with it and you see other groups go through it. So I went into the gas chamber and they had us do the mask. I took off the mask and I accidentally, when I had to break the seal, I accidentally let a little bit more in than I was supposed to. And then they made us all remove the mask. Well, everyone has to remove it and there was one guy in there who didn't remove it. So I'm holding it, I'm coughing my lungs out and the cadre is in there, he's blown up this guy to take off his mask, take off the mask. Finally he took it off and then they made us give out a reporting statement. I couldn't even, like, must have, it was like, but they, like, it was a full on. It did not work. We all have to leave out single file and we can't go outside the yellow line. So I was in the middle of it all and we had to, like, zipper out perfectly. I, like, and people were pushing. I remember I heaved a little bit, couldn't touch my face. I, I don't know, I kind of let out this horrible screen like this, ugh, ugh, while walking. They made us take two laps around this drill pad and it hurt for, like, the rest of the day. I could just feel my, my throat burned for, like, two days after. We had our first, oh, you can't see it. We had our first MRE that day. Meal ready to eat, baby.