LTC Marc J. Stevens
In 2001 a $90,000 Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine Initiatives (HIPPI) grant was awarded to investigate the significant threshold shift rate of soldier’s issued the Combat Arms Earplug (CAP) compared to traditional earplugs. This study was conducted on soldiers assigned to Fort Stewart’s 3rd Infantry Division and the 1/75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield. In anticipation of a DOEHRS-HC data repository query (due early Jan 2004) that will provide STS data by UIC by type of earplugs used and issued, this presentation will simply report the STS findings on soldiers fitted with CAPs compared to soldiers not fitted with CAPs. The data should provide information on Rangers and MPs as well as a few 3ID Infantry units that fought in the Iraq war.