Can any type of ear plugs prevent an LRAD (long range acoustic device) from making the environment uncomfortable?
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Jon Davis, Sergeant of Marines. Fought in Iraq during OIF. Amateur military historian.
Answered 76w ago · Upvoted by Joel Postma, In the Navy twice. First as an Avionics Technician. The second time as a Seabee. and Ryan Q.Y. See, Former Drill Instructor, Singapore Armed Forces · Author has 3k answers and 53.2m answer views
No. Not in the slightest. Those things are the worst.
Back when I was in Iraq on our second deployment I was assigned to a Entry Control Point where my squad had to check and manage every vehicle that came or out of the base. We had an LRAD… and way too much free time.
If you aren’t getting the picture, imagine a group of Marines plugging in Justin Bieber in an LRAD, or whoever was the most annoying artist back in 2008, and cranking it up to something on the order of a billion decibels. It is a remarkable technology that is extremely good at directing sound energy, so as long as we are pointi...
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