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<p>Between 1 January 2001 and 30 September 2022, a total of 2,170 UK Regular Armed
Forces personnel were medically discharged with a principal or contributory cause
of hearing loss/damage, of which 1,455 had been previously deployed to either Afghanistan
and/or Iraq. The breakdown of the figure is provided below:</p><p>1,119 had been deployed
to Afghanistan.</p><p>839 had been deployed to Iraq.</p><p>Personnel may have deployed
to both Afghanistan and Iraq therefore the breakdown cannot be summed. The medical
discharges included in this response cannot be attributed to deployment to Afghanistan
or Iraq. This means that the hearing loss/damage may not have been sustained when
on deployment and the subsequent medical discharge may have occurred a number of years
after deployment.</p>
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