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Realistically speaking, can there ever be a Deaf army?
I am talking about deaf people who are sign language users. There are many deaf men who would make excellent soldiers, with good strategist minds. Seriously, with mobile phones and text messages, and lipreading abilities, what are the logical reasons for excluding deaf men from the military? I can understand one, night time operations... but with night vision goggles? Is it now time for deaf men to be included? Or is it still too dangerous?
Having a good strategist mind only really helps when you get to a certain rank, and you have to work your way up to that from positions that being deaf would be a severe detriment. There is no way a deaf person would be able to survive a combat zone.
Sign language and lip reading are only good for direct line of sight communication at close distances. Text messaging is good for long distance communication, but not when speed is critical.
Not to mention that vision is unidirectional - if something happens outside of your line of sight you have no way of knowing about it. Hearing is critical in a combat situation due largely to the fact that it is omnidirectional. You could be keeping watch while listening to updated orders, you could hear gunfire coming in from your rear, you won't be completely surprised by that tank coming around the corner of the building in front of you, your teammate could shout you a warning about an enemy that you can't see because he's behind cover, it would be very easy to sneak up on a deaf sentry, the list goes on.
If you're just talking about including deaf soldies in regular rear-echelon units, imaging the difficulty in getting every soldier in the military proficient in the use of sign language.
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