stockers said:
thanks for all the replies. i have had contacts in the pas and didnt get on with them. ive got a few pairs of glasses ready for basic, but i wondered if it was worth buying a piar of safety or sport ones for shooting in the feild etc. ive found the issue ess ice glasses and inserts for 50 quid, all i would have to do is get the inserts set up to my prescription. would it be worth it? and would i look like a cnut turning up to training with these glasses?
cheers stockers
1. No - it fecking wouldn't! That nice old lady on the five-pound note in your purse really will buy them for you (FFS!

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2. Yes you would. Read on.
I dunno if these days there's any privision for high-durability specs for operations (I expect not - the Army might not want speccy bastards like me doing the firefight in braille 'cos theit NHS set just fell apart, but - even now - they'd draw the line at making me or you look like Elton John).
Buy spares, and if yer going where folk are likely to come and 'ave a go ('cos they think they're 'ard enuff'), get ones that won't easily fly off, snap or scratch.
I'd recommend you get through basic traingn first, - although if (like me) you can barely function without corrective lenses - the following advice applies pretty much everywhere (parties included

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Keep (at least) one pair of spare/no-sex glasses on your person at all times:
"no hand signals - blind platoon commander "wouldn't have have cut it for me in South Armagh - and while things in AFG may be a downhillmovement since then. at least polycarbonate frames and lenses offer you an advantage over the glass things old gits like me were stuck with.
Keep yer head down. Don't let the tw@ts with perfect sight get to you.
I have always found that as long as my specs are in my pocket, and not on my face, there's no such thing as an ugly woman
