Oakley Half Jacket Eyewear

I'm going on a road trip this summer and will be driving. I figured it'd be nice to have some sunglasses (I've been eyeing specific Oakleys - M-Frames and Half Jackets, no pun intended), but I need prescription glasses when I drive. So I figured I'd just get the frames for one of them and get my eye doctor to make me some custom prescription lenses.

BUT...

later this year I will be joining the Canadian Forces Reserves. And many of my friends who are current reservists and reg. force members have told me the issued eyewear protection is total crap, gives you mad headaches, and when you add a prescription lens attachement, you'd rather not see.
So assuming that my section or platoon leader, whoever that may be, let's me use non-issue eyewear, my questions are:
-how do I buy from Oakley prescription M-Frames?
-would a private eye doctor make ballistic-rated custom lenses?

Sorry for long-ness.

Thanks in advance!

M-Frames and Half Jackets cannot have prescription lenses put into them in the normal way, they can only have prescription inserts added behind the sunglass lenses - this is less than ideal for general use. Many other Oakley sunglasses however can hold prescription lenses - these are made by Oakley's lab with the same tints etc. You would need polycarbonate lenses to be 'ballistic-rated'. Oakley prescription lenses are available in polycarbonate.

You just need to find an Oakley supplying optometrist near you - see the Oakley website for a list

2008-06-15 20:15:01 by canuckkwan

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