A military lab found distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure in every brain it tested, but Navy SEAL leaders were kept in the dark about the pattern.
Yup. The stuff that's coming out is scary for anyone who was in Combat Arms for a long time. The thing is, you can look at the different sections of the military and see immediately where the brain damage occurs. Anyone adjacent to combat arms could have told you this decades ago. I didn't mean that negatively. It's apparent in the difference in culture, prevailing attitudes, and the soldiers around them continuously being quoted with stuff like, "there's something crazy about those guys."
Like, if it was just symptoms I'd write it off as coincidence. But the method of damage they go into...
It 100% is getting people outside of combat, if someone was having to wear hearing protection in their work space constantly, they were likely getting this damage, and it's not showing up on brain scans or anywhere else.
Yeah Absolutely. I don't know about heavy equipment operators. Like, I literally don't know enough about what they do. But the sappers and route clearance teams that worked with us are exposed just as much. And training is as much of a problem as actual combat.