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Welcome to the Military Audiology Association! Our organization’s mission is to ensure operational readiness and quality-of-life to the Fighting Force and eligible beneficiaries by providing cost-effective hearing health care through state-of-the-art audiological services, including prevention, medical surveillance, education, and research. We will strategically place military audiologists to support the Fighting Force for success on the modern battlefield. Military audiologists are recognized as primary experts and providers of hearing health care. We will achieve pre-eminence in preventing disease-non-battle-injury. We will emerge as leaders in preventive medicine activities by promoting education and research to enhance
operational readiness.
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he felt his injuries had gone unrecognized by the military “because there was no blood” and because he chose to work through his pain.
Former Staff Sgt. Kevin Owsley is not quite sure what rattled his brain in 2004: the roadside bomb that exploded about a yard from his Humvee or the rocket-propelled grenade that flung him across a road as he walked to a Porta Potti on base six weeks later.
Continue reading War Veterans’ Concussions Are Often Overlooked
Filed under General News on Aug 26th, 2008
The latest promotions for Air Force members was announced this week.
Continue reading Air Force Promotions
Filed under General News, Air Force on Aug 13th, 2008
…he couldn’t hear well enough to tell where the sniper fire was coming from. “I had no idea,” he wrote.
To sleep, he listens to rock music on his iPod, a common means of coping for troops with tinnitus, says Army MAJ Dan Ohama, an audiologist working in Baghdad.
Continue reading Soldier’s Story Illustrates Risks of Hearing Loss During War
Filed under General News on Aug 5th, 2008