Throwback Thursday: $38M Army Gas Masks with No Improvements

Between 1969 and 1982, the U.S. Army spent $38 million – $111 million in 2022 dollars – to make improvements to gas masks, all for a final product that was no better than what they started with.

Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, gave the U.S. Army his Golden Fleece Award for this bureaucratic ineptitude.

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