Sound advice

remember the day my hearing gave out. It was in July 1979 when I was serving in an armoured infantry battalion with the British Army of the Rhine. I had been running an anti-tank range day in Germany and we were firing an 84mm Carl-Gustaf, a heavy, shoulder-mounted recoilless rifle which lobbed around 3kg of unpleasantness at a passing tank, with a great deal of noise and concussion at the firer’s end. We hoped to stop the 3rd Shock Army in its tracks if the Soviets ever decided