COL David W. Chandler
Director, Army Audiology & Speech Center
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, D.C. 20307
Military deployments in recent years tend to be a joint force composition, with a mission to provide stabilization over an extended period of time. The nature of these deployments present many "real world" mission opportunities for military audiologists with regard to hearing conservation, medical surveillance and force health protection. This presentation will discuss audiology support of U.S. Implementation Forces (IFOR) in Bosnia, and of Task Force Hawk in Tirane, Albania. Specifically, the presentation will focus on establishing and supporting a hearing conservation program for deployed forces, and supporting forces in a tactical environment with regard to noise abatement and communication issues."