Re: Troops suffer hearing loss in Afghanistan (Edinburgh Evening News)

On Nov 2, 5:24 am, hummahu...@humma.com wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:57:34 -0700 (PDT), Ken
>
> <kkerri...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >On Oct 31, 9:50 pm, hummahu...@humma.com wrote:
> >> On 30 Oct 2008 02:10:13 -0500, ad...@ng2000.com wrote:
>
> >> >http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=hearing-loss>>
> >>   I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that our troops are suffering seve
re
> >> hearing losses.  In other news, night follows day and dog bites man.
> >>   In more disturbing news, the number of military audiologists
> >> assigned to preventive medicine (hearing conservation) has fallen by
> >> 50 % since the start of the Gulf Wars.  Nice planning.
>
> >As I say, this was the 50s. It is crazy that the forces are still
> >failing to equip people with adequate ear protection (and making sure
> >that they use it).
>
>   The saddest part is that both the Brits and the US forces had pretty
> good earplugs (V-51R) from about 1952 to today.  There is no excuse
> for a gun crew to suffer hearing loss today.  Combat patrols are a bit
> different, but history is going to repeat itself.

The V-51R sounds like the things we used - small pink/brown rubber,
came in a tin with a tube of lubricant. According to the following,
they may be less effective than sticking your fingers in your ears!
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JA
SMAN000041000006001545000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes
Unfortunately I have not been able to see the full article.
Of course, as with many things, even if you have perfect hearing
protectors there is still the problem of getting people to use them
(for all the good it did me!).
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