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From: amdcad!royf%pwcs@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Forsstrom)
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Subject: Re: Sub glasses
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Date: 3 Oct 89 13:06:53 GMT
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From: amdcad!royf%pwcs@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Forsstrom)

In article <27487@amdcad.AMD.COM> aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes:
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>From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
>This is kind of a bizarre request, but here goes ..
>
>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. 

>The point of this is that these glasses can be worn inside of a breathing 
>apparatus in case of emergency.  This is usually an air-hose mask (EAB?
>EBA?), but I've also heard that it will fit inside of an OBA (oxygen 
>breathing apparatus) mask.  The OBA is a chest-pack version of the "oxygen 
>candle" (chemical oxygen generator) that is most often used in fighting 
>fires.

This is the same reason the navy gives for not allowing beards. BUT as soon
as Reagan came into office, beards were not "clean-cut and uniform looking"
so they were outlawed. 
>

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