Strangest thing - navy gunners generally had ear protection but they weren’t offered to us ?
My MOS was 0811 -Field Artillery Cannoneer.
During schools and at 29 Palms, we had no ear protection.
It was at Stumps that I was told to buy a bottle of aspirin, take the cotton out of the top, put it in my ears and take the aspirin after a fire mission.
My hearing’s been shot for a long time and my hearing is 60% gone in both ears.
V.A. gave me hearing aids and they help.
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