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two dudes in glasses in the pic lol if I'm going to war I'm not doing it with my fucking glasses on
I know contacts will fuck you with chemical weapons in your eyes but tbh you're fucked then anyway and I need my peripheral vision and for my vision to not fall off my face
In basic they don't let you use contacts, they issue everyone who needs them identical glasses with identical sports straps.
If wartime I would recommend shatterproof eye protection, comes in shaded and unshaded, prescription and non-prescription. There's a reason why "operator" dudes all kind of end up looking the same, it's cuz that's what works.
How identical are we talking here? Just frames or lenses too?
As a long-time glasses wearer I don't imagine they'd be 100% identical, that would be near useless for most wearers who weren't like, -1 myopic if that were the only glasses provided.
Anyone with astigmatism or a higher prescription (probably starting at -3 and stronger) would be probably better off not wearing glasses at all than wearing mis-prescribed glasses, and at that point their eyesight would be too poor for standard activity.
Frames also need to increase in thickness as the prescription increases, because the lenses get proportionality thicker too. A thin frame will either be too narrow/weak to hold the lenses, and the overhanging glass is a physical hazard
Yeah, it would be stupid and counterproductive, but we're talking about the US military so I figured I'd ask.
Yeh definitely worth asking and tbf I don't have any special insight into how the military would do it other than the fact that I've walked around with glass in front of my eyes for most of my life.
I'm guessing maybe they'd have standardised frames and lenses that go up in gradations of 0.5 or 1, and can easily be swapped out. They probably wouldn't allow for astigmatism because that's different for each person so the correction may be off for some wearers, but so long as the degree prescription is okay they probably make do.
hmm okay "standardized" would be a better word than "identical", I'm pretty sure they give you your specific prescription it's just that all the glasses look the same.