Infantry Combat Equipment (non-firearm): Vests, Body Armor, NVGs, etc.

A potato

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Probably because the cup earpros quickly get hot and uncomfortable to wear in hot climates and because a lot of people in China still have this baffling attitude that personal safety isn’t a priority.

Personally, I would have suggested that all bases hire one deaf old man as their cleaner so instructors can point to him and tell recruits to protect their ears if they don’t want to be him in 50 years time.
Well they're outside in the open where gunshots dosen't make you go deaf so I guess it makes sense not to use it because cheap plug works as well as long as you doing shooting outdoors.
 

supersnoop

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Personally, I would have suggested that all bases hire one deaf old man as their cleaner so instructors can point to him and tell recruits to protect their ears if they don’t want to be him in 50 years time.
Lol, reminds me of something a sergeant told a group of young gunners.

“Wear the ear muffs. Don’t think it’s ’being tough’ by not wearing your ear muffs, because you know what’s better than being tough? Hearing!”
 

bsdnf

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Probably because the cup earpros quickly get hot and uncomfortable to wear in hot climates and because a lot of people in China still have this baffling attitude that personal safety isn’t a priority.

Personally, I would have suggested that all bases hire one deaf old man as their cleaner so instructors can point to him and tell recruits to protect their ears if they don’t want to be him in 50 years time.
This is similar to why, although every PLA artilleryman is issued noise-canceling headphones, soldiers often just use earplugs because headphones get too hot.

Unless it's for loading precision ammunition and requires communication, loaders don't actually need much voice communication.
 

A potato

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You guys just need to be patient. Large organizations like the military are like very large ships — you can’t expect it to turn on a dime. As a certain date approaches you’d see more and more changes to the organization.
Atleast they're making changes and starting from somewhere which is progress compared to the US where they literally repeated all the same mistakes from Vietnam in Afghanistan.
 
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