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09-16-2012, 10:01 PM
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Question for all of you veteran's
I always wondered, do you vet's have bad hearing from serving? I never knew weather or not you guys have earplugs in during firefights or do you just deal with the loud noise?
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09-16-2012, 10:07 PM
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I have been out of the service for 40 years, and my ears have been ringing and deteriorating ever since. Right ear hearing just about gone, left ear close behind. Bombs, bullets, and grenades destroy ear-drums. In a firefight there is no time for earplug insertion, it time for death, yours or theirs. Choose wisely.
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09-16-2012, 10:25 PM
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Hardships make or break people. -Margaret Mitchell-
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I believe there are a lot of hard of hearing veterans.
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Honor Student: School of Hard Knocks
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritatus
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09-16-2012, 10:45 PM
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Big TOW
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Not just the explosives, Generators, Track Vehicles and radios didnt do much good for mine. Sometimes we just act deaf, usually when we hear BS!
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09-16-2012, 10:58 PM
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Im a newb to the guard but some days my head rings like its going to fall off.
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09-16-2012, 10:59 PM
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Moderator
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WHAT? SPEAK UP!
Yes, a LOT of us have hearing loss. Trying desperately to keep what I have.
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What we have heah is.... failure to communicate.
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09-16-2012, 11:09 PM
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=Semper Fi=
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Yup. There are a lot of loud things while serving. I have already shown some hearing loss.
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I have been a silent witness
to all of America's finest hours.
But my finest hour comes
when I am torn into strips and used as bandages
for my wounded comrades on the battlefield,
When I fly at half-mast to honor my soldiers,
Or when I lie in the trembling arms
of a grieving mother
at the graveside of her fallen son.
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09-16-2012, 11:28 PM
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Even if you weren't in a fire fight try crawling around under a whining F4. We had hearing protection but it was still very loud. My ears ring constantly.
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09-16-2012, 11:34 PM
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Yes. My hearing sucks.
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