You don't hear it. It's that simple. You hear it after.
Question for combat veterans....???
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Hear what ??
Yeah, it's kinda like that.
You only worry about coming out the other side when it's over.
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Yeah, it's kinda like that.
You only worry about coming out the other side when it's over.
It's a lot easier than dealing with that steady ringing in my ears every day. Hold on, darn phone ringing again & crickets are bad this year 
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Triggerman may have been referring to these:Hillbilly said:
http://www.e-a-r.com/premold_detail.cfm?prod_family=Combat Arms&ind_prod_num=370-1000
http://www.hooah4health.com/environment/hearingnvision/combathearing.htm
Do any of the active duty members here have any experience with these?
I've been wondering how well they'd work in combination with electronic muffs.
These also look interesting:
http://www.woodlandwhisper.com/wwite.html
or this one
http://www.woodlandwhisper.com/ww2.html
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread.
Talk about noise!!! 8O 8O 8O
I sat in my fox hole along the Heiu Giang River north of Dong Ha one night while the U.S.S. Boston (Get Some - Navy!!!) walked 8" rounds up and down the North side of the river trying to keep the a couple of NVA Battalions and the part of the 13th Main Force VC Regiment from wiping out some Marines and getting over to the other side. Had the 155 Battery from Dong Ha and some 175 Long Toms working too.
Buncha Marines were mighty thankful that a U.S. Navy Cruiser came in close ashore that night. Wouldn't wanted to have been them because the story we got later had it that the Boston put a "ring of fire" around some grunts hugging their holes to keep the "boogers off".
You could definitely hear those going off. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Now THAT was a loud party. 8O 8O 8O
duckbuck
I sat in my fox hole along the Heiu Giang River north of Dong Ha one night while the U.S.S. Boston (Get Some - Navy!!!) walked 8" rounds up and down the North side of the river trying to keep the a couple of NVA Battalions and the part of the 13th Main Force VC Regiment from wiping out some Marines and getting over to the other side. Had the 155 Battery from Dong Ha and some 175 Long Toms working too.
Buncha Marines were mighty thankful that a U.S. Navy Cruiser came in close ashore that night.
Wouldn't wanted to have been them because the story we got later had it that the Boston put a "ring of fire" around some grunts hugging their holes to keep the "boogers off".You could definitely hear those going off. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Now THAT was a loud party. 8O 8O 8O
duckbuck
No good hijacking was ever carried out solo, so let me give you a hand... :lol:TEA said:Triggerman may have been referring to these:
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Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread.
I'm not military and haven't been in combat, but I have a pair of these ear plugs and think they're great. Basically, they can be inserted either way, one way giving more hearing protection while the other way allows better hearing of "ambient" sounds.
The color coding makes it easy - "showing" the green side (yellow side fitted into the ear canal) is the "combat" setting. It gives a nominal level of hearing protection from discharge of your firearm, while still allowing you to hear other things - like people talking, mechanized sounds of trucks, etc. Insert the plugs the other way (yellow side showing, green side inserted) and they give maximum protection from the sound of discharging firearms. In this way, they're as effective as any earplug or earmuff I've used. The drawback is that other sounds are also more difficult to hear. So you use the plugs as necessary... Going into combat, insert the yellow side; going to the range, insert the green side.
Getting back to (I think) the original point, I, too, have always been curious to know whether combat vets typically have reduced hearing capability due to having been in firefights. To Six and the rest of you, do you still hear normally or have you suffered a loss of hearing due to your combat experiences?
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