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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by polack on Saturday March 31, 2018 @05:55PM (#16725377)
Yes, modern soldiers wear “comtac” hearing protection with integrated microphones that pick up speech but block out the noise. So you can still communicate decent by shouting even though there is heavy fire going on around you.
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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by Bromskloss on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:13PM (#16725437)
What about before such things were available? Did everyone get damaged hearing the first day?
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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by polack on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:36PM (#16725534)
My grandfather told me on his first day in the military he had to stand (without any hearing protection) next to the anti-aircraft cannons when they opened fire to “train” the ears. He did not have much hearing left when he was older...
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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by bigiain on Saturday March 31, 2018 @10:11PM (#16726330)
My dad used to tell a story about when he got a hearing test as part of an employment medical fairly late in life, and the audiologist asks him "You're left handed, aren't you?" because he could see the typical signs of rifle shooting related hearing loss in his left ear. Turns out dad wasn't actually left handed, but shot a rifle at school cadets 30 years earlier left handed because he could only close his right eye independently - it was easier to just shoot left handed than to try to learn how to look through the sights with his right eye.
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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:30AM (#16727627)
A bit off topic, but anyway, are you aware of cross-dominance?[1]

I'm left handed in most things but right eye dominant.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance

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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by Bromskloss on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:53AM (#16727812)
Does ocular dominance have anything to do with the ability to close one's eyes?
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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by chiph on Sunday April 01, 2018 @10:23PM (#16731838)
Pretty much. You watch any film from the WW-II era and only artillery crews wore any sort of hearing protection (cotton wads stuffed in their ears). But many of them gave up doing even that after a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMytPAKQyU

Dad had significant hearing loss from his time in the infantry during the war.

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