“At the end of 2004, the monthly compensation payments to veterans with hearing loss as their major form of disability represented an annualized cost of some $660 million”
“DoD spends about $1.5 billion a year treating noise-induced
hearing loss. "It's an awful problem for human beings when they
lose their hearing, and we are compelled to try to treat it,”
McBride said. “We are a very noisy environment. We are very
aggressive about working the environmental aspects in reducing
the noise, but nothing is perfect.".
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