Hearing-Impaired Veterans Fume at 3M’s Tactics on Earplug Suits

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John Schrock was waiting to get paper cups and plates at a military store in Baghdad when the rockets hit.

The lights went off. Fixtures dropped from the ceiling. Shelves collapsed all around him. One soldier died while 20 others, including contract workers and Iraqis, were injured. Schrock said he couldn’t hear anything for hours after the incident.