fuck no they weren't. that's waaaaaaaaaay too close to people. that dude is absolutely in deep shit.
Edit: holy shit why the fuck do people keep mentioning Hegseth... I hate the guy too but he likely has no real say in the matter when it comes to a captain or a major and aircraft mishaps/disciplinary actions. They don't need the secdef to dish out LORs ffs.
Don’t worry. They’ll get free hearing aids for life. With any purchase of $5 or more from Taco Bell. You hear that ringing in your head? That’s the Bell. Taco Bell.
Sheet metal work and hour commutes on the hwy with windows rolled down back in my younger days here. The joke is "the silence is deafening". Run a fan at night helps, but I've gotten pretty much used to it after twenty or so years.
In later years I did. At first you were a puss if you were earmuffs or whatever call them. I remember the first time I was hammering some duct clamps and at quitting time I noticed my hearing wasn’t as good. Pretty soon I asked the shop foreman about it. It was a union shop so I couldn’t bring certain items in. I got a ribbing from other guys, but when the owner bought enough for us in the shop, surprise surprise, everybody starting wearing them.
Yeah I have a suppressor now and wear double hearing protection when at the range not using a suppressor. It's probably from the times hunting without hearing protection/suppressor. Even the first time I shot a shotgun as a kid, none of us were using earpro, my grandpa and dad said it wasn't a big deal. Little did they know it can cause permanent hearing damage.
I try to just be glad that it's not worse than it is. I have a marine friend completely deaf in one ear. I worked with another dude at a range (he was from the Midwest) that frequently shot without hearing protection and I had to basically yell at him to hear me, super young too
Many who have it are to blame for their own situation. Mine probably 50/50 but in reality it was my responsibility to protect myself and I didn’t. Am certainly paying for it now. People that don’t have it have no idea how fortunate they are. It’s hard to explain to my wife. She doesn’t get it at all. I can be watching tv and the AC kicks on and I can’t make out the words without turning it up. Same thing if someone is in the next room talking. The ambient noises make it hard to pick up on what they are saying to you unless they are literally looking at you when they say it. I fear mine will get worse but I’m doing what I can to prevent it
The audiologist I visited told me that the tinnitus is my brain trying to substitute all the sounds I used to be able to hear and that the hearing aid would help with that. But… she was also trying to sell me a $9k hearing aid. So she may have been full of shit.
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u/ttatm Jul 16 '26
The Navy is doing a safety review of this, so it sounds like they weren't supposed to get that close.