“It also may help to avoid tinitus and other hearing problems for the grunts later in their lives.”
Now we’re talking, spent 11 months firing rounds up and down the A Shau with 105’s, 155’s, 175’s and 8 inch howitzers not counting several thousand rounds through an M-60. My ears sound like Church Bells on Sunday. OK you can’t silence any of the equipment I mentioned but it was a thought.
The M-60 can be equipped with a silencer.