At my gun club, all the officers are older retired military guys. The first meeting I went to, I thought they really didn't like each other. Because they were all yelling.
I was a mortar platoon leader in a mech infantry battalion for about eight months, so I can appreciate the hearing loss suffered by a lot of artillerymen 'cause a 4.2" mortar fired from inside an M106 carrier is nothing if not LOUD. I can only imagine how loud it is inside an M109 series 155mm howitzer.
