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Posted: 7/20/2018 9:11:15 AM EDT

[#1]

Flightline noises, gun fire, etc..

Seeing Hellyeah at the Machine Shop in Flint left my ears ringing for 3+ days.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:11:46 AM EDT

[#2]

Westpac 1994 USS Independence, air power demonstration. F14 broke the sound barrier coming straight for me. got the picture but before I could get
my other finger in my ear he broke it. Chief said if your ear is not better in 3 days medical. If you have ever felt the sound barrier being broke you feel it in your soul!

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:13:41 AM EDT

[#3]

The AT4 was probably the loudest thing, but I had earpro in.

Went for a ride on a Marne Express Blackhawk, forgot my earpro.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:15:12 AM EDT

[#4]

Me and my two cousins shooting off a wooden fence at leaves in a creek about 300 yards away.

Mid 80's and no hearing protection.

We were grinning and having a good time.

When out of nowhere Mr. Woodchuck stands up on the side of the creek.

Elbow to elbow, three rifles went off at once ... 30-06, 270 and 7mm mag.

I felt water drain out of my ear ...

Never been right since.

Used hearing protection from that day.

Anytime it gets loud.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:16:50 AM EDT

[#5]

Had a Private ND a blank round out of a 240 about a foot from my ear inside a Stryker with all the hatches closed. I have ringing/buzzing in that ear now.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:17:13 AM EDT

[#6]

Full 25 round mag dump from a F/A mac10 w/o ear protection. Loudest sound I have ever heard. It was like a wall of sound. In movies you hear the rat-rat-tat of machine gun fire. This was just a constant ear splitting roar.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:18:44 AM EDT

[#7]

One of my buddies hit an open safe door with a 3 lbs hammer as hard as he could in a small cinder block room.

Explosions, machine guns, jets, heavy equipment all pale in comparison to that fucking sound.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:18:53 AM EDT

[#8]

helicopters. artillery, tank engines, tank main guns, grenades, M2, M60, M14, M16, M79, and countless M151, M35, M923, HMETTS, HETTS, M113, M577.......

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:20:12 AM EDT

[#9]

5.56 and forgot to put my ear pro on.

ringing in left ear since

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:21:21 AM EDT

[#10]

Seen many loud bands.. but one stands out in my ears still aren't right a year later, I'm pretty sure its permanent .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzYMVrhTyk

them kicks drums in a small venue with a pretty fuckin loud set up.

great show though.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:21:25 AM EDT

[#11]

SA58 OSW w/o ear pro from inside a mobile home. I have a life time supply of cicadas in my left ear now to remind me never to shoot with retarded relatives.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:21:59 AM EDT

[#12]

Not the loudest probably, but one of the most memorable non-enemy moments. It was some bumfuck early morning time, still dark out and I'm walking to the piss tubes. On the other side of the HESCOs are two 105mm howitzers. Both started a fire is soon as I'm midstream with dick in hand.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:22:38 AM EDT

[#13]

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Westpac 1994 USS Independence, air power demonstration. F14 broke the sound barrier coming straight for me. got the picture but before I could get
my other finger in my ear he broke it. Chief said if your ear is not better in 3 days medical. If you have ever felt the sound barrier being broke you feel it in your soul!

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Sitting in my girlfriends dorm room on Okinawa, and she goes, "That's weird, both of my ears just popped."

Three seconds later the Habu overflies and the whole building shakes. Wasn't hugely loud indoors, but the vibration was intense.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:23:51 AM EDT

[#14]

BA or Air France Concorde taking off to the north at Boeing Field in Seattle some time in the 80's.

That forking thing HURT!

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:24:49 AM EDT

[#15]

Flight line and stuff going boom

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:25:38 AM EDT

[#16]

1.5 inch airline ruptured fed from a 6 inch main. It was very loud and very much a surprise. Have to sleep with background noise now.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:26:16 AM EDT

[#17]

VBIED

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:26:28 AM EDT

[#18]

When I was 9 years old, my dad took me out to shoot his Model 19 .357 magnum. He shot his Model 29 .44 magnum. Both had 4" barrels.

After the first shot, I complained that it made my ears hurt. He told me that hearing protection was for sissies, and I needed to man up and get used to it. We kept shooting for another hour or two.

Besides the pain and sharp ringing in my ears, sounds felt very muffled for several days afterward. My hearing has been terrible ever since.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:28:01 AM EDT

[#19]

For me was the M114 155 mm howitzer (I think) memories are no longer reliable on numbers, quite a few were firing in sequence not to far from our position, they were loud, sounds of freedom.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:28:14 AM EDT

[#20]

Listening to My Ex-Wife Talk.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:28:27 AM EDT

[#21]

Repeated exposure to a Federal Q electro-mechanical siren. It's only about 130db but years and thousands of runs without ear pro takes its toll.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:28:49 AM EDT

[#22]

M60 in Somalia. We were rolling down the coast south of Mog in our own technicals and the gunner decided the Indian Ocean was looking at him wrong.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:31:33 AM EDT

[#23]

A fellow hunter shot a .300 Weatherby magnum with a compensator from inside a hide on a leopard hunt, it messed me up pretty bad. It was so loud and painful I was literally stumbling around and completely disoriented for a while. I lost hearing completely in my right ear for at least 36 hours, both my ears rang for days after. Ever since then I have been particularly sensitive to loud sounds. Just a few years after the hunt I was at a motorcycle rally and some dick couldn't keep from revving his straight pipe Harley, he happened to pop the throttle right next to me while I was between a building and concrete retaining wall. It just about put me on my knees and the bad ringing set in again.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:32:17 AM EDT

[#24]

Horizontal mill at cement plant.

A 12 foot diameter by 30 foot long cylinder made of 2 inch steel, rotating at 60 rpm, filled with steel balls 8 inches in diameter, crushing rocks the size of grapefruits down to powder.

Standing near it, you can scream and not hear your own voice.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:32:19 AM EDT

[#25]

Mazda 787B Start and Rev at Sevenstock 4. From the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6jxvOh-urU

My buddy and I stood right next to the exhaust pipe.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:32:34 AM EDT

[#26]

Bangalore going off is probably the loudest thing I've ever heard. Had earpro in though. Fired one shot from a short 1911, forgot I took my ears out. Left my ears ringing for a good 15 minutes. Didn't do that again

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:33:06 AM EDT

[#27]

Observing a live fire missile battery with several other folks.
Missile cleared the rail, went about 50' up then went splodey, raining shrapnel all around us.
I had a headache from that.
Still don't hear so well.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:35:05 AM EDT

[#28]

Motörhead at small clubs in the 80's

Grad strike at 400m in the Upper Hula Valley

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:35:17 AM EDT

[#29]

45’ long 36” natural gas inlet line at the Dynegy plant in Lovington NM.

The put a 36” stopple in the pipe and we’re doing hot taps on it to install flanges.
Semi illegal welder whipped out his torch and went to cutting a hole in it.

BOOM !!!
It shot the 120lb+ stopple out of the pipe and it hit the front of his welding truck so hard it pushed the motor and trans back about 10”” into the cab.

The stopple ricocheted off the truck and flew about 100+ yards.

I was about 200’ from it when it exploded and my ears rang for a couple day.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:47:36 AM EDT

[#30]

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Full afterburner F15 engines on trim pad !

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F-106 with J-75 back in '87 in test cell.
That "KAWHOMP" going into burner will never be forgotten.

The Ol' Crew Chief

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:48:25 AM EDT

[#31]

Rock concerts

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:48:48 AM EDT

[#32]

Mine is very similar to OPs. I was bracketing some 155s on a position in the distance when an at4 was shot about 20m from me. That was super loud.

Was a safety at an at4 range with ear pro standing right next to people firing them and that wasn’t a walk in the park even with ear pro.

Also himars artillery going off 1-200m from me.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:49:49 AM EDT

[#33]

308 with muzzle brake indoors no ear protection, ouch

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:50:43 AM EDT

[#34]

25-06, no earpro, about 6 feet away. Ears rang for days.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:51:35 AM EDT

[#35]

Model 29 S&W 6" without hearing protection multiple times

what?

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:52:28 AM EDT

[#36]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6jxvOh-urU

My buddy and I stood right next to the exhaust pipe.

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holy shit, that reminds me..

I actually forgot about watching these things

no ear pro at the 1/8th mile.

its so goddamn loud your vision shakes.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:53:01 AM EDT

[#37]

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Air Force. 80 Screaming engines on 10 B-52's every morning for launch. Over time that does some serious damage.

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Posted: 7/20/2018 9:53:30 AM EDT

[#38]

12 hours topside on an Aircraft Carrier, for months at a time

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:56:12 AM EDT

[#39]

I'm a musician (guitar player) so I'm exposed to loud a lot. I finally went to the ear doc and had some ear pro made, it helps. I have 3 different levels of filters so I'm covered no matter how loud it gets, one day I may even get in ear monitors.

Posted: 7/20/2018 9:59:19 AM EDT

[#40]

Spent some time on 120mm mortar... Left ear no worky much these days.

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:03:42 AM EDT

[#41]

7.62x39 ND in an enclosed concrete space.

Barrel about 6" from my left ear.

Not as extreme as some folks here, but it was loud enough to stun me.

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:05:57 AM EDT

[#42]

Standing next to M240B/M2 while firing without protection
Standing 50yds away from a C17 when it spooled up at BIAP and shook the ground/building to the point where even the AF people in the building came running out wondering what the fuck was going on

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:06:33 AM EDT

[#43]

B1B's fully loaded with full afterburner on taking off directly overhead.

double ear pro wasn't even close to making it hearing safe.

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:07:17 AM EDT

[#44]

Fucking SMAW

Too many TOWs blew my ear though.

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:08:29 AM EDT

[#45]

I'm sure I accumulated a lot of hearing loss during my time in the Marine Corps, but one time that stands out is when I was on a WestPac and out ship had to "qualify" for Harrier landings. So we went topside to watch it land using the V/STOL. I was unprepared for how loud it would be. I had my hands pressed to my ears as hard as I could and it was still rattling my brain.

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:13:31 AM EDT

[#46]

Standing in the kitchen behind the counter. The back door was open during a thunderstorm. Some cloud to cloud lightning that must have been right over the house, followed by a huge boom. I mean it was LOUD. I almost jumped out of my shoes it was so loud and unexpected.

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:16:33 AM EDT

[#47]

Cylinder full of .357 magnum.
Great round, but painfull without hearing protection.

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:16:51 AM EDT

[#48]

12" 870 fired a couple feet from my head without warning. Left ear never was the same afterward.

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:20:43 AM EDT

[#49]

F-4's on the flightline years ago ...

Posted: 7/20/2018 10:20:44 AM EDT

[#50]

Compressed helium truck. I was on an airbase in afg near the flight line. There was a FULL compressed helium trailer (semi truck 40ft sized trailer) with like 10+ 30ft long cylinders that was going to drmo/dla and needed emptied before drmo destroyed it. There was like 2900 psi in it and I was told to empty it.

It had a 2” pipe looking output on it. Not sure what I was thinking, but I opened all the manifold valves and then just threw the lever to the main output.

Remember how I said I was near the flight line? Maybe 300yds away there was a crew of airmen crawling all around/on a C-17 that either just landed or was getting ready to taxi. C-17s are loud and they had their ear pro on and everything... you know, cause they’re like 10ft away from idling jet engines.

When I opened this valve 300ft away from them they all looked around like, “what the fuck is that noise”?

Forget my ears... The noise was so loud that it hurt my BODY. It doubled me over and I had to walk away. The only way to describe the roar was crushing.

I’ve fired a .308 sbr with a brake and it was not comparable.

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