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From: jallred@BBN.COM (John Allred)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sub glasses
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Date: 28 Sep 89 07:12:03 GMT
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From: John Allred 

In 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.  

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John Allred
BBN Advanced Simulation
(jallred@bbn.com)