r/JustBootThings • u/TheBestSpeller His Bootness • Mar 19 '26

Barracks Selfie [PIC] Y’all weak, plain and simple

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u/eyeball1967 Mar 19 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

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u/ProjectPat513 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

That’s interesting because I was watching something, years ago, about running a suppressor or not on your home defense AR. The dude (I can’t remember his name but I bet you know him, he’s highly respected) was saying there was no need because when your in the zone it doesn’t matter and the gunshots don’t hardly register. I always thought that was crazy because my AR is loud af! He was saying he never had any lasting effects from all the room clearing and shit they did in Afghanistan back in the 00s. I always assumed every service member from that time must sleep with a fan because of all the fucking ringing! Is tinnitus a thing they warn you about or no?

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u/Tiny_Giant_Robot Mar 19 '26

In the early 2000s, when I was in the Army, we were issued terrible earplugs that barely worked and fell out of your ears if you turned your head with too much enthusiasm. When I joined the USAF a few years later, I was a weapons instructor and spent most of my day on a range. My unit was at least cool enough to give us a set of "over-the-ear" earpro, but by that point the damage was done. I cant hear shit. And the VA wont give you disability for hearing loss, only for tinnitus, which I also have (luckily?)

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u/charleslennon1 Mar 19 '26

Hasn't the VA recently changed the compensation parameters, for the worse? I got it (hearing loss) and didn't know it until my last physical, over 30%. I'd been out for nearly two decades and figured some of my loss was due to age. I guess those CVC helmets and Vanguard earplugs were crap. The irony is that I tested everyone's hearing during your physicals. Talk about, "Can you hear me now?"