Comments on: Hearing Loss Now A Military Epidemic

Roadside Bombs Send Troops Home From Combat With An Alarming Rate Of Hearing Damage

[excoachken]

When asked what he would do about this, the Cowardly Cowboy said,"What, I can''t quite hear you."

[ubrew12]

Bush lost his ability to hear long ago. I guess he''d like the rest of us to be like him.

[excoachken]

Just another "side effect" from a war that has accomplished nothing!

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by MCVet at 07:15


MCVET -- I do not attack you because you dont follow Bush, I attack you because your dumb.


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Posted by poopusbuttus at 07:17 AM : Mar 08, 2008

Poopusbutthead who claims to work at the Pentagon, yet doesn''t even know the people of Kosovo were his hated Muslims. Talk about dumb!

[erasmus6]

"nearly 70,000 troops who have served in the two war zones are collecting disability for tinnitus, a potentially debilitating ringing in the ears,"

"The bush regime war enablers collecting fat checks for THAT? look up tinnitus, its VERY common an dmost old people have hearing damage as do kids from rock/heavy metal." Posted by newster1


Tinnitus can be very bad. It can be a very LOUD ringing in the ears. It can drive people insane. I have heard people say that they have wanted to kill themselves it is so bad. I think William Shatner has tinnitus.

[joyous88]

Duh!

Same thing happened to the bush administration 8 years ago.

[bobnjersey]

[Hearing damage is the No. 1 disability in the fight against terror, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and some experts say the true toll could take decades to become clear.]

this is just the tip of the iceberg for medical and psychological by-products of the war. they don''t even try to estimate the true long term costs anymore.

the higher it goes ... the more vets that will get screwed when they have no more money to fund trillions of long term costs.

[usmcvn2]

****king NeoCon Yackoffs!

[mcvet]

poop old buddy I''m waiting! YOU are one of the LEAD nazi''s who constantly come''s on here attacking people because they won''t support the "Party". Now YOU say you aren''t fascist so prove it. Tell me where anything I posted about that slime dog you call a President is NOT true! TRUTH is not dumb and if you''d EVER seen combat you''d KNOW that. Sieg Heil Bush

[mcvet]

MCVET -- I do not attack you because you dont follow Bush, I attack you because your dumb.


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Posted by poopusbuttus at 07:17 AM : Mar 08, 2008
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Explain you swastika toten moron!! Exactly what did I post that was "dumb"! The slime dog DID lie didn''t he? He did send those kids off to die KNOWING he''d lied to their families didn''t he. If you doubt that I can give you the web site that has all of the 935 lies listed, documented and all. Why don''t you go there and give us all ONE, just ONE, of those LIES that was truth? Sieg Heil Bush

[mcvet]

This is not new, nor is it news.

I served in the military for over 20 years. I also suffer from hearing loss, and receive disability because of tinnitus as well as migraines.

BUT, I never served anywhere near where loud noises or artillery was being used. My tinnitus is from exposure to high-frequency noise given off by electronic equipment.

Not all the cases in this so-called ''''report'''' are battle-related. CBullS just doesn''''t want to make that distinction, since this ''''news'''' network is about as anti-American as it can get, trying to shove stories down yours throats disparaging the military and the government every single day.

And if you can''''t see that, I really feel sorry for you.


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Posted by TheGateway1 at 04:27 AM : Mar 08, 2008
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Yeah but we were supposed to have LEARNED something from Vietnam there swastika breath. Know what that was? Well we were NOT going to send our troops off to fight of LIES again. Guess what!! Sir Lies-A-Lot DID and those people who have this problem have it because of those LIES. NOT in defense of this nation! Not for the reasons given his/her family! NOPE, because of LIES told by the trash YOU call a President. Doesn''t that make you want to strut around with that Swastika showing? Sieg Heil Bush!!

[poopusbuttus]

Posted by MCVet at 07:15


MCVET -- I do not attack you because you dont follow Bush, I attack you because your dumb.

[mcvet]

Dont expect the military to bail you out of everything that goes wrong with you.


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Posted by poopusbuttus at 06:58 AM : Mar 08, 2008
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You Nazi''s are absolutely UNBELIEVABLE. That God awlful piece of Human Scum YOU call a President lies to the families of our Troops, a total of 935 times that scum and his gestapo LIE to the mothers and fathers of these kids. He sends them to fight a war that NEVER had to be and they end up loosing their hearing. So do you freaks say that''s not good, that''s wrong? NOOOOOOOO!!! You attack someone because they do not support the fuhrer and the "Party". Strange how you losers haven''t changed in all these years! It is NOT strange that you are flat out getting the Krap kicked out of you in this fight. Sieg Heil Bush

[poopusbuttus]

By the way I didn''''t appreciate this remark: Oh well, guess you shouldnt have SIGNED UP as a bush regime war enabler, so you got what was coming to you! It sounds like something I heard after my return from Vietnam.



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Posted by mutmee

I agree. But, Newster is famous for this. Who knows were he posts from. It doesnt matter...he''s a known jihadist supporter.

At any rate, I do not have tinnitus, but suffer from mild hearing loss as well as I used my ears for a living whilst serving in the military.

I dont know about Vietnam era troops, but in my era of soldiering, the military (at least the Army does), issues troops hearing protection. Especially in line units.

Also, the military performs mandatory hearing tests every year for the troops.

But, the bottom line is this. Outside of being thrust into a combat situation unprepared, each person has a certain level of responsibility for their own protection.

Dont expect the military to bail you out of everything that goes wrong with you.

[poopusbuttus]

You''''re an F''''n scummbag.


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Posted by hungry1968


Dang HUNGRY, we actually agree on something.

[hungry1968]

Posted by newster1 at 02:40 AM : Mar 08, 2008




You''re an F''n scummbag.

[hungry1968]

Protect the troops hearing!!

Bring them home!!

[ontheleft]

Posted by TheGateway1 at 04:27 AM

You are ignorant. This story was written by the Associated Press, not CBS. Duh. Every major news site is carrying this story.

[clifden6]

Dear Mr. Newster 1: The kind of tinnitus you are referring to, if it exists at all, is not the result of old age or the *** music you listen to.

How about in the middle of an 105mm direct support howitzer battery firebase in like Vietnam where I served, where we fired on a 24/7 schedule. The firebase was about 1/4 the size of a football field. The howitzers were in lazy W, of which my SEA hut about 2X the size of Dubya''s desk in the Oval Office, was behind. I napped, I did not sleep, but when I did, I napped and would wake up at dawn with food cans on the top of me, from the back blast.

I was the XO and when not in the exec pit, which was on top of a bunker, I needed to walk the gun line, and we had no earplugs, this was the Marine Corps, not the US Army. Firing commands were readback to insure accuracy, and once the quadrant was given, then the howizter was loaded. Again just how can you protect your ears like this. Vietnam was not WWII, we were engaged all the time. Plus being a firebase we were surrounded and needed to provide our own security, meaning that we were short of heavy weapons. But no problem, some of my street smart Marines were Detroit City ot Chicago, just made midnight requisitions from the US Army, which was swimming in equipment. By the way I didn''t appreciate this remark: Oh well, guess you shouldnt have SIGNED UP as a bush regime war enabler, so you got what was coming to you! It sounds like something I heard after my return from Vietnam.

[ontheleft]

Yeah, and it''s too bad the government has no problem giving billions to defense contractors but is appallingly stingy when it comes to taking care of the soldiers that risked their lives for a paltry $30,000 a year. The federal government is corrupt and evil.