While much is known about the public health impacts of civil aviation noise, only limited research has investigated the consequences of military aviation noise, despite it first being recognized over half a century ago. The present study conducted a social-acoustic survey to quantify levels of annoyance and sleep disturbance associated with military aviation noise among communities surrounding Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington State, USA, which serves as a training facility for EA-18G Growler aircraft. We conducted a social-acoustic survey of 663 respondents residing in households across a representative range of military aviation noise exposure levels. We report evidence that perceived exposure to military aviation noise is consistent with modeled annual sound levels across the study region and that noise exposure is positively associated with annoyance and sleep disturbance. We also found that reported annoyance is strongly influenced by active or past service in the U.S. Armed Forces and by expressed attitudes toward military operations. Aviation noise disrupted several routine household activities and triggered different coping strategies in affected communities. By highlighting the implications for human well-being of military aviation noise, this research raises questions about the appropriateness of conventional community noise metrics and mitigation approaches for military aircraft noise.
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Julian D. Olden
Lauren M. Kuehne
Amy Kim
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
University of Washington
Naval Hospital Bremerton
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69ba421b4e9516ffd37a20cd — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043064