Closest I’ve seen to this being done was the movie Black Hawk Down. Meanwhile can you imagine everyone screaming at each other in the John Wick films? Other movies like Aliens would have been a whole different level of horrifying as the sound fades away until its just the sound of the actor’s muffled heart beat and their cluelessness that the xenomorph is crawling up behind them.
yeah thanks 3m. foam fucking plug bullshit. I knew it was gonna be a problem, too, when I realized half the nco ranks were obviously hearing impaired already just from range and field training.
I can’t remember if it was at psab or what but I was in a smaller detail (20) wedged between two Army company’s (I think that’s the right name, like ~150 or people?) in the same chalk. The group rotating back in were way fucking louder then the other and I pointed that out to someone with me who also noticed the same thing. At the time our guess was the quieter group were national guard going in for the first time while the others were active duty/permanent party and dealing with the funk differently.
Now I am starting to wonder if the one group’s hearing was just collectively fucked?
can certainly happen to units coming home from IED’s and shit. I can’t wait until they figure out how to cure tinnitus. I just wish the VA was realistic about hearing loss being a much wider problem than they’re acknowledging going back to the 70s and 80s even.
I am sorry to be a bummer but it is pretty obvious the VA and DoD will never willingly acknowledge it because the least cases of hearing damage might only be with the medical people in the Navy and USAF.
eh, valid.
Ironically I know navy vets who got it working in crowded hulls (they have a name for it, machine spaces lol!) where the cacophony and vibration never stopped, and lots of chairforce vets who worked the flight line.
Reminds me of a time where I was stuck in one of the extra shitty versions of the humvee for about half an hour because I parked just outside of a command post that was directly adjacent to the flight line where half a squadron of F-22’s were just spooling up to leave. All of these fucking things were parked with their jets pointed in my direction, so absolute maximum noise levels. I had no hearing protection because I didn’t know I was going to this spot until someone told me to “just stop by” over the radio and grab something for my squadron’s commander (LtC). If I tried opening the door it was just pure auditory pain and I couldn’t just cover my ears because I had been issued a shotgun (I was a tech and this was a punishment prank) plus a satchel of stuff I was given strict orders to keep 100% control over. Tried to go park somewhere quieter but then the airmen on the flight line were signalling I couldn’t leave.
Anyway, I was told the reason the USAF’s slogan is “Aim high!” is to make sure they don’t shoot themselves in the feet.
rofls