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I DO know that this has Congress's attention (for what that's worth in an election year). Ryan Larkin (SEAL breacher) hung himself after a long battle with the Navy, employers, his demons, and basically life in general. His Dad, Frank, was the House SGT of Arms during all the unpleasantries of the last administration and was himself an old school SEAL. Frank is also one of the best, smartest, and honorable guys I've ever met. One of my closest buddies worked with Frank and Ryan for several years in trying to assist Ryan in his issues with the Navy's mentality to just use you up and toss you. Unfortunately, the leadership in the SEAL community (in my opinion) is FAR behind the healing mentality needed to get beyond the last twenty years of war(s). Frank was able to get the results of his son's autopsy to the attention of Congress as his brain analysis clearly showed the CTE (?) of repeated blast injuries.
It's not so much the "firing of weapons," it is a major wake-up call as to breaching, frags, HME, etc. and the frequency and size of the charge that is being studied.
The best recitation of this I found in a book written by a physicist who wrote the definitive book a few years back as to the reason the men in the Confederate Sub Hunley were all killed and found at their stations as if they had just fallen asleep. A really good book for history buffs and some good science in there as to blast dynamics upon the human body.
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