Wahlau, what advice to give!
USE YOUR EARPLUGS! PROTECT YOUR EARS!
Hearing damage is cumulative, and cannot be restored once the nerve
cells are dead. Unfortunately due to the brain's ability to make up
for hearing loss, you won't be aware of hearing damage until you
have lost quite a lot of your hearing.
And this hearing loss cannot be restored.
On average, serving 2 years in a combat vocation where you see a
lot of life firings and loud noises, even with earplugs the grunt
loses 8 percent of his
hearing. And this loss is for life.
If you don't use ear plugs, the damage done is far worse. You may
not notice the effects at first but a few years down the road when
you are older it will becoming extremely obvious as you start to
lose hearing naturally as part of aging... since you have less of a
hearing nerve cell "buffer" to lose, you will suddenly experience a
drastic loss of hearing within a few short years... and then it's
too late liao.
So don't follow your friends who think they macho can tahan blanks
and life firings without hearing protection, while they think they
are okay, actually they are damaging their hearing with every pull
of the trigger. No matter how garang they are, the fact remains
that the pressure waves generated by firearms, even with blanks,
are well over the limit that can cause hearing loss and
damage.
And factor in all the outfield, all the life firing and all the
stuff... that's a lot of damage.
This one dun play play one... I notice that my hearing is less
acute then it was before I entered NS, and I used hearing
protection a lot.
NS is only for two years, don't lose sacrifice your hearing for
it.
