I’ve actually been meaning to ask this question for some time now but don’t like vanities too much so I held off.
I wonder what, if anything, is used for hearing protection in combat? I never see any being used by our troops and the volume must be unbelievable! I know communication is obviously important in combat as well, so a soldier has to be able to hear. I don’t get it. How is it done? Do soldiers just go without and blow their ears out and hope it comes back after some time?
My Dad lost the hearing in one ear in WW2 from the guns on his ship.
As a child, my Mother used to sit on her grandfather’s knee and listen to his Civil War stories. He could hardly hear her though for he was mostly deaf from gun and cannon fire. I have a photo of him holding one of those old fashion horns to his ear. He died in 1928 at age 92.