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In the civilian world or on a website? You know the brown ugly ones?
A direct link gets the best answer
You can actually get those same glasses from your optometrist. Most can order them. American Optical has generally been the provider of those. Trust me, when I tell you that the current glasses are not the true BCG's. If you saw the old ones you would understand.
All it takes is for you to put them on one time and you will be forever changed.
what's so different about these? do they slip off your nose like others?
I dispute the BCG part. I wear them since I got wounded in Iraq and still get laid. If you have game, your good. The are sturdy glasses and can take punishment, plus they are free. Some people can't laid without them, so the point is moot. lol
Anyway condoms are birth control....lol
So I leave next week for Army BCT in Georgia and I wear glasses to see things at a distance. I'm assuming I'm going to have to wear glasses there and I've heard quite a lot about "Birth Control Glasses", I've heard mixed things about them. I understand that you HAVE to wear them during Basic Training, but what about after BCT. Also, what would I wear for glasses if I get deployed somewhere like Afghanistan? Would I be wearing something different, or those glasses again :[ I will be choosing a best answer.
Okay so some of you guys are saying you wear the glasses throughout your enlistment, some other people I've talked to say if you get deployed you get some sort of blast resistant goggles or glasses or something that are different than the glasses that you wear during BCT. Is this true?
Yes you have to wear the birth control glasses at BCT. After that you can wear what you want as long as the glasses are within regulation. AR 670-1 is the Army regulation that covers wear and appearance of uniform. This regulation will talk about what type of glasses you can wear in uniform.
Does anyone know if any army surplus store or any company which sells BCG (birth control glasses) to the public?
here is example: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/261204 568_6473ec9667.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/45459 8645_c5c5bd2cf7.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/169836 596_e392ed61d1.jpg?v=0
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1282 454118_2f40514336.jpg?v=0
You get idea...
I will NOT join Military just for BCG. How insulting.
If I choose to join, it will be out of service for this country not because I want a pair of glasses. Im just curious to know if they do sell because I know BDUs and such are often sold.
If you have style and you can look like a nerd with those glasses. Girls will think you are not only smart but hot as well..
LOLOL.
Why on earth would you possibly want those things. I've got 3 pairs in a box somewhere you can have. Or just ask any military person and I'm sure they'd gladly give you thier pair.
in the army do you get those goofy Birth control glasses or those nice new ones like sunglasses
When I finally had to get glasses (old age), I wasn't issued any sunglasses.
But on deployments, they throw all kinds of sunglasses (personal protective eyewear) at you along with prescription inserts. I got Oakleys, UVEX and ESS sunglasses. I think I came home with five or six pairs.
30th Anniversary of the Birth Control Glasses - Blue Falcons
We at the Blue Falcons Organization would like to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the U.S. Military’s Birth Control Glasses. Birth Control Glasses (BCG’s), are eye glasses that are so ugly that they had to be designed by the U.S. Military. You cannot wear contact lenses during basic training. You also cannot wear your civilian glasses, once you have been issued your official government-issue glasses. GI glasses are not pretty to look at. In fact, most people call them "BC Glasses," or "birth control glasses," on the basis that nobody has ever been known to "get lucky" while wearing them. For women the appellation was expanded to include the nickname RPGs, in the late 1980s, which referred to the glasses ability to scare off would be rapists, hence Rape Prevention Glasses. The U.S. Service men and women that are willing to lay down their life for the Country, get the same eye-wear as the terrorists...
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