Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: amdcad!royf%pwcs@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Forsstrom) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Sub glasses Message-ID: <9870@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 13:06:53 GMT References: <27487@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: City of Saint Paul, Dept. of Public Works Lines: 35 Approved: military@att.att.com From: amdcad!royf%pwcs@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Forsstrom) In article <27487@amdcad.AMD.COM> aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes: > > >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. > -----------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Roy Forsstrom 612-298-5569 | Traveling makes one modest. You see Public Works Computer Services | what tiny place you occupy in the world. pwcs!royf royf@pwcs.StPaul.GOV | -Flaubert -----------------------------------+-------------------------------------------