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From: btiffany@pbs.org
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: fighter pilots can have 20-70 correctable vision?
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.002804.10401@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 4 Dec 90 00:28:04 GMT
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From: btiffany@pbs.org

In article <1990Dec3.050356.2265@cbnews.att.com>,
	clallen@rodan.acs.syr.edu (CHAz) writes:
> In article <1990Nov29.020205.26969@cbnews.att.com> geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) writes:
>>
>>In article <1990Nov20.021522.26890@cbnews.att.com> clallen@rodan.acs.syr.edu (CHAz) writes:
>>>	Perhaps.  There is currently a medical waiver limit set at 20/70 
>>>correctable.

	That's about what it is for locomotive engineers.  Some railroads are
even stricter on that.  It has more to do with insurance than with safety.
	It kept me out of the profession for many years.  I finally gave up
and went into computers (probably a better move in terms of regular hours for
a family man).
	But I still wish I were on the right side of a locomotive cab ...

-- Bruce Tiffany			btiffany@pbs.org


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