Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!mailrus!purdue!gatech!amdcad!military From: jallred@BBN.COM (John Allred) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Sub glasses Message-ID: <27527@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 07:12:03 GMT References: <27487@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: cdr@amdcad.AMD.COM Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 24 Approved: military@amdcad.amd.com From: John AllredIn article <27487@amdcad.AMD.COM> aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes: >US submariners are issued different glasses than most Navy personnel -- >very expensive gold-rimmed John Lennon jobs (the American Optical Sampson >P-3). > >I know there are ex-submarine folks out there. Will these things fit >inside of OBAs? The masks for EBAs and OBAs are similar, so I think so, but I'm not sure. The primary issue is whether the seal on the OBA mask can tolerate the earpieces of the submariner's glasses. The Submarine Force goes one better -- for all of us that get to look out the periscope (OODs, Conning Officers, QMs), the Navy actually fits us with contact lenses. ____ John Allred BBN Advanced Simulation (jallred@bbn.com)