Much has been written about this but I haven't been able to find anything on hearing damage to the shooter or any of the survivors. It was done indoors with a 5.7x28 FN FiveseveN pistol which is very loud.
Anyone know anything?
PS I think it insane that our military personnel cannot carry firearms on a military base.
Much has been written on many gun battles, like the Miami-FBI shootout, for example. Unless you are in the hearing profession, chances are you don't care one iota if any of the participants had any hearing loss. I am 100% certain that no audiologists or the military did any sort of systematic testing prior to and then after said shooting (noted previously), in order to ascertain hearing loss of the survivors for this one incident.
If they had not tested the victims immediately prior to the shooting, then any hearing loss may be attributable to other factors outside of the testing parameters. For example, how many of the people that were involved are also involved in operating heavy machinery, drive large trucks, drive tanks, fly helicopters, ride in helicopters, forgot their ear protection during the last exercise, etc. between the time of their last test and the shooting? How many have been in combat? You can't apply any hearing records from when the people entered the military because too much time has elapsed between the time of the test and the shooting. There just isn't any control over the parameters of the test subjects for the time between when they entered the military and when they were involved in this shooting. So there will be no report on the hearing loss of soldiers (and civilians) from this incident. If somebody did attempt such a report, the results would be dubious.
Short of a study for which people volunteered, any individuals having their hearing tested outside of the military likely will not have their information available and it will be Hipaa protected.
Only part of the Fort Hood shooting was indoors.
As for not being able to carry on base, the military has a long history in developing its program. It isn't just stateside, either. I have known several folks, in theater, but not deployed to combat who had their military issue weapons taken from them until which time they were deployed to combat. This practice has gone on for many decades.
The military does not trust its people to be responsible enough to the point that at least stateside, many (most?, all?) of the bases (like Fort Hood) are not protected by the military, but by non-military police, as who crippled the Fort Hood Shooter. At Fort Hood, the police would be DACP (Department of the Army Civilian Police). For the Navy, United States Department of the Navy Police. For the Marines, United States Marine Corps Civilian Police, etc.