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I Never Heard Anything About This

submitted by Clubberlang to Military 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:19:33 ago (+4/-1)     (12ft.io)

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F09%2F07%2F1198301845%2F3m-agrees-to-pay-6-billion-to-service-members-for-faulty-earplugs



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[ - ] jigganiggaboo 0 points 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 21:56:33 ago (+0/-0)

.......WHAT?!?!?

[ - ] Clubberlang [op] 1 point 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 23:39:41 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:43:43 ago (+1/-0)

The jewmercials were all over talk radio awhile back. I thought it was fake and gay bullshit. My grandfather flew B-17s in the South Pacific, you know, the rattle can with 13 50 cal machine guns on it? Yeah, and he had no hearing problems.

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 1 point 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:46:25 ago (+1/-0)

The B-17 crew members wore headsets inside soft leather helmets.. which provided some hearing protection.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:48:16 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. They would have frozen to death otherwise. A better example might have been ground troops of the era. Did they wear any ears at all? To my knowledge, all that was available was wax at that time.

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 2 points 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:52:03 ago (+2/-0)

I have no idea about ground troops TBH. I'd imagine they might only wear hearing protection during sustained engagements.

You wouldn't want to wear wax plugs or something similar if you were patrolling.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:56:42 ago (+0/-0)

That’s what I thought. You wanna hear every twig snap, every leaf crunch. Hell, under that pressure, you can hear a leaf when it snaps free from its branch, before it makes swirling sounds in the breeze, prior to landing on the other leaves.
The fags we have now wear the high tech headsets with nois cancelling. I have a cheap pair of those and they’re a trip. Turn it up too high and you can hear the leaves depart from their branches before they hit the ground.

[ - ] Gowithit 2 points 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:25:20 ago (+2/-0)

They ran the you can claim commercials about this a few years ago.

[ - ] killallkikes 8 points 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:23:43 ago (+8/-0)

of course you didnt hear anything about this, thats why theyre being sued.

[ - ] Fascinus 2 points 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 20:58:53 ago (+2/-0)

WHAAAAAAAT??

[ - ] Clubberlang [op] 0 points 1.7 yearsSep 7, 2023 23:40:53 ago (+0/-0)

Dis nigga gettit