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ichy_trigger · 05-06-2008, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Tally XD

Another sufferer of tinnitus. Was a tanker in the Army. 105mm, 7.62 and .50cal will make you hurt.

Yup, I was on Tanks as well and I have tinnitus too. We were issued ear plugs but when your rolling along and **** happens, the last thing on your mind is ear plugs. Heck, inside the turret of a tank, the only thing you head when the 105 or 120 goes off is a big metalic clang, kinda wierd.

DocMedic · 05-07-2008, 09:52 AM

Well I guess its the way you train during practice. During my tour in Iraq I was in 3 firefights, not big movie worthy shootings or anything like that but enough for putting my head down and returning fire. I learn't my lesson the first time shooting my M4, I only unloaded a little more then half a mag, but my ears rang for Days. And being the medic It drove me nuts. So what I ended up doing was tieing a set of ear plugs to my kevlar just above each ear using 550 cord, and made them just long enough were they would hang just past my ear by a little bit if they happen to fall out my cat eyes. When Firefights 2 and 3 happen, after I established cover, I would take a half a second to reach for my right ear peice and drop it in my ear. Even though I had set up 2 plugs for both ears, I only ended up with only putting the right ear one in both times, I figured I could live with one ringing ear, as long as I can hear perfectly out the other.

JTF96B · 05-07-2008, 05:51 PM

I know my last time in Iraq I had to check my Soldiers for ear plugs every time we rolled out of the wire. That was more for the IEDs rather then the small arms fire. My first time our scouts started wearing them after they had been hit by IEDs a few times.

05-07-2008, 05:51 PM	#13
JTF96B XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Cameron, TX Posts: 17	I know my last time in Iraq I had to check my Soldiers for ear plugs every time we rolled out of the wire. That was more for the IEDs rather then the small arms fire. My first time our scouts started wearing them after they had been hit by IEDs a few times. __________________ War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

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05-07-2008, 09:52 AM	#12
DocMedic XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 16	Well I guess its the way you train during practice. During my tour in Iraq I was in 3 firefights, not big movie worthy shootings or anything like that but enough for putting my head down and returning fire. I learn't my lesson the first time shooting my M4, I only unloaded a little more then half a mag, but my ears rang for Days. And being the medic It drove me nuts. So what I ended up doing was tieing a set of ear plugs to my kevlar just above each ear using 550 cord, and made them just long enough were they would hang just past my ear by a little bit if they happen to fall out my cat eyes. When Firefights 2 and 3 happen, after I established cover, I would take a half a second to reach for my right ear peice and drop it in my ear. Even though I had set up 2 plugs for both ears, I only ended up with only putting the right ear one in both times, I figured I could live with one ringing ear, as long as I can hear perfectly out the other.