Military takes off ‘Birth Control Glasses’
NEWS-SUN STAFF REPORT January 24, 2012 7:48PM
NAVY BUREAU OF MEDICINE The new standard-issue eyeglasses will be offered to all active-duty and Reserve personnel and will be the sole choice for service members at recruit depots.
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Updated: January 25, 2012 2:36AM
GREAT LAKES — Young sailors might be a looking a little sexier at Naval Station Great Lakes.
That’s because military recruits who wear glasses no longer will have to endure the embarrassment of sporting unattractive BCGs — those despised standard-issue specs known as “Birth Control Glasses.”
The Naval Medical Logistics Command has chosen a new design, which will be offered to all active-duty and Reserve personnel and will be the sole choice for service members at recruit depots.
The glasses will soon be the rage on recruits’ faces at Naval Station Great Lakes and other military sites.
Recruits who need glasses were issued BCGs as part of standard boot camp medical care — and most quickly bought new ones after boot camp was over.
The new specs, called 5As, are “more hot college professor, less mad scientist,” opines the San Diego Union-Tribune.
As for the BCGs? They’ll continue to be standard issue for retirees, at least for now.
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