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I have a constant low frequency buzz in my ears, nothing crazy like I would imagine serious tinnitus is. I assume that everyone in a job where there's loud noises gets this as a parting gift from service, though.
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my kinda ape posted:I think you know the answer. When I went through master breecher the instructors told us the army has a pretty good idea of what happens when you are around large explosions but has no idea what the effects of many small explosions are. That was a few years ago, maybe they have done a study but my kinda ape posted:I think you know the answer.
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I just googled it and found this article. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/05/522613294/do-u-s-troops-risk-brain-injury-when-they-fire-heavy-weapons Army was researching it and then abruptly stopped researching it and told everyone to forget about it. So it's probably about as safe as anything else you do in the military and the higher ups care the same amount as usual as well.
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aphid_licker posted:So did they make sure during speccing / design that you're not getting a lil cumulative TBI every time you fire the thing or is it just lol yolo nobody has bothered to run the stats yet on what happes to CG instructors after retirement? if i were a betting man i’d say they figured out real quick out dangerous it was and carefully avoided testing for it. subterfudge posted:Army was researching it and then abruptly stopped researching it and told everyone to forget about it.
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As seen on the new Netflix doc called Pandemic
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bloops posted:As seen on the new Netflix doc called Pandemic FYI Netflix had a guy put this together with a detailed pitch, told him no thanks, didn't pay him, and then bam, they come out with his exact proposed idea. https://mobile.twitter.com/dgisserious/status/1220165487407116295
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I've seen things you...Karens wouldn't believe... Dinings Out 
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Dinings Out Look at this continental Francophile and laugh
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Dinings Out hows the hre working out for ya
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https://i.imgur.com/VL7X8xv.mp4 WWI style ear protection (it was apparently optional)
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Godholio posted:They were lucky if they had shoes for the duration. Unless you were an officer, in which case they drat well better be buffed to a mirror sheen, or your whipping boy is going over on the next whistle.
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When the Germans were using the Big Bertha Siege cannons (17 Inchers) they had to pack cotton into their ears, mouths and noses, move a football field away and fire the drat thing electronically because the overpressure would gently caress them up so bad. I think regular field artillery gunners had it a little easier (unless they were getting counterbattery)
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aphid_licker posted:What's up with the guys in the trenches? Is it better tbi-wise to have a gun fired next to you or a shell burst some meters outside your trench?
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It basically sounds like the closest thing to an actual hell that I could ever imagine
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The biggest gun in terms of caliber I ever stood by was this cannon doing a quarter charge. Still felt like an ice pick in my eardrums if I didn't cover them at 100 feet. I feel bad for the guy firing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXIYWnqSyLY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86XhYS8GJI&t=130s These guys were firing a 12 pounder Napoleon with full powder charges as an experiment to determine where the remains of canister shot would have ended up so that historians could try to locate them using known artillery emplacements on Civil War battlefields, and vice versa. A full charge for a 12 pounder Napoleon was an entire pound of black powder. Edit: Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86XhYS8GJI&t=244s for an amazing sound McNally fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Re: WW1 trench warfare/ artillery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we72zI7iOjk
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Scope posted:Re: WW1 trench warfare/ artillery And the truly scary part: People survived this....
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Uh well this only took a few seconds to find on YouTube and I watched it, it’s absolutely horrifying. And I’m sure it’s completely tame by comparison to what happens when things actually heat up. https://youtu.be/DAo7go-4l0g
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Blind Rasputin posted:Trench warfare must’ve had to be the most godawful thing to ever exist during WWI. The one saving grace is that there was comparitively little actual fighting between trenches in WWI - you would have to be quite unlucky to actual be involved in a "going over the top" offensive as most of the time most sectors were pretty quiet. Being involved in an actual offensive would have been pretty horrific on any side though, yeah. Plenty of Germans went insane prior to the Somme thanks to being stuck in chalk dugouts that were shelled non-stop for 2 weeks. WWI fighting outside of the trenches (right at the start and right at the end) was no joke either - 329,000 Frenchmen were killed in the first month of the war, prior to both sides digging in.
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MikeCrotch posted:The one saving grace is that there was comparitively little actual fighting between trenches in WWI - you would have to be quite unlucky to actual be involved in a "going over the top" offensive as most of the time most sectors were pretty quiet. ?? Verdun was doing like 70k casualties a month for almost a year and that started in Feb 1916 before the Somme.
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Wasn't the bloodiest single day of WW1, worse than the first day of the Somme was in the frontier battles right at the begining.
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Deptfordx posted:Wasn't the bloodiest single day of WW1, worse than the first day of the Somme was in the frontier battles right at the begining. Battle of the Frontiers yeah, next was the first day of the Somme iirc
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MikeCrotch posted:The one saving grace is that there was comparitively little actual fighting between trenches in WWI - you would have to be quite unlucky to actual be involved in a "going over the top" offensive as most of the time most sectors were pretty quiet. Yeah I remember reading The Guns of August, and it described how at the beginning of the war the French military was still hung up on the old as heck tactics of marching toward the enemy in straight lines while wearing red pants. The Germans, on the other hand, said gently caress that to all those old gentlemen agreements and began the war decked out in drab scrubs and employing gorilla warfare like tactics. They just eviscerated the French armies in the most lopsided unfair battles. Not even playing the same sport.
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