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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sub glasses
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Date: 11 Oct 89 03:36:27 GMT
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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
Thank you to those who posted or mailed replies!  (Isn't USENET great?
No matter what the question is, *someone* out there can answer it ..)
In case anyone else cares, the bottom line appears to be that the wire 
frame glasses fit in OBAs and EABs (but not the Mk 5 gas masks).

>From: amdcad!royf%pwcs@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Forsstrom)
>>From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
>>US submariners are issued different glasses than most Navy personnel -- 
>>very expensive gold-rimmed John Lennon jobs (the American Optical Sampson 
>>P-3).
>>
>Unless they just started this, there aren't any rules on what type of glasses
>one wears in the navy. *IF* you get free glasses from the clinic you can get
>either the black rimmed type or wire rim. 

Notice that I said "issued" .. the P-3 is only issued to bubbleheads
(and a few crafty surface nucs), and evidently even they don't 
automatically get them.  At $120 (retail) each, I believe it.

The old black BC frames were recently replaced by even uglier brown 
"BC Mk 2" frames.  (For those not in on the joke: "BC" stands for 
"birth control" -- there's no way any member of the appropriate sex 
will engage in mumble mumble with anyone wearing them.)
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