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Hearing Loss Is a Soldier’s Dire Enemy

EXCERPT

Mary Roach hits the firing range to discover what nearly every soldier knows: even mild hearing loss is devastating in battlefield situations, and earplugs, the common solution, may make things worse.

Mary Roach
Mary Roach
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Mary Roach

Mary Roach

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