- Me too - USMC artillery in VN.
Hearing aids will help by generating white noise that masks the tinnitus.
They're very expensive so go to the VA and you'll get your aids for free.
Canadian vet told me up there they call it “Tanker’s Ear”
“Me too - USMC artillery in VN.”
Over 70% of my life a sound like a TV station “test pattern signal” has been constant companion. Occasionally “sumphin” causes the pitch of the “sound” to intensify for a brief period. Reckon in part it’s an occupational hazard for once being an 0341 mortar-man.
Your tag indicates service as an 0811, so I’ll say Thank You for perhaps having provided support on one occasion or the other. Weather being such in I-Corp, artillery was more readily available that CAS.
Semper Fi