“I was Field Artillery. Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!”
I was Armor....and I spent 18 months with the 4.2” mortars. I also fire the self propelled Howitzers a time or two.
They are all loud...and your location relative to the gun orientation made a huge difference.
But...if you have ever fired a rifle indoors (not in a sound deadened indoor range or metal building....but inside a masonary building like this school), you will appreciate the painful ‘crack’ that it makes. Its painful, and differs fom the low boom of artillery.
I got it. Been there, done that too. If you are going out to take out the world, then kill yourself, why worry about you hearing?
That’s all I am saying.
Yeah, I get it, it is loud, but if you have been around it a lot, it’s not that hard to work through.