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Dusters providing marines with help in hazardous environment? (12)

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I believe the answer is:

parlourmaids

'dusters' is the definition.

'marines with help in hazardous environment?' is the wordplay.
'marines' becomes 'rm' (abbreviation for 'Royal Marines').
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'help' becomes 'aid' ('aid' can be a synonym of 'help'**).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'hazardous environment?' becomes 'parlous'.
'rm'+'aid'='rmaid'
'rmaid' going inside 'parlous' is 'PARLOURMAIDS'.

'providing' is the link.

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