Glasses!!

[jshields19]

I wear glasses whitch i really need them to wear like at all times! does the DI let you wear your own glasses or contacts at all times during Recruit Training?

[tdrt]

Nope. You'll get issued a lovely set of Birth Control Glasses -- like the kind Drew Carey wears from the '50s. No contacts ever.

[DrZ]

Be glad you can't wear contacts.... you will spend enough time in dirt, dust, and sand that your eyes would always look like they are bleeding!

The glasses I was issued (40+ years ago), were probably left over from when my Dad was in boot (67 years ago).... and I believe the Marines still have ample supply for the next 100 years! Thankfully, after graduation, you can either have a reunion with your contacts or purchase some less homely glasses with your hard earned money.

[WXSgt]

if you wore your own glasses would you be uniform with the rest of the people in your platoon that wore glasses? and would hate to have contacts in when you went to the gas chamber as the CS gets under them and burns the sh!t outta your eyeballs.

[Lisa 23]

Also, try doing a search on the site as glasses in boot camp has been covered many times before.

[Capital M]

If you're really concerned about it. just bring a pair of contacts down with you and keep them for the items in your blue money-valuable bag.

I did this, and starting phase three I only wore my glasses when in class or when absolutely necessary. My tan line was gone and the DIs don't really notice that you all of a sudden arent wearing your glasses so on Marine week you could get away with wearing contacts.

The only rule for our company was no civilian glasses ever. Contacts during Marine week was kind of a gray area

[SlingerDun]

Now go ahead and say these are not waaay kooler than the modern issue BCG's

[Sgt Leprechaun]

Bring contacts at your own risk, and use at your own risk. Personally, I can't advise on that. After recruit training, I never wore the BC's, and wore contacts constantly.

[SGT7477]

Now go ahead and say these are not waaay kooler than the modern issue BCG's

Looks like my old pair.

[scarver007]

You will be glad to wear the BC's during table 2 firing because anyone that doesn't have glasses has to wear the eye pro. that they provide, and from talking to the ones in my platoon that had to wear them, they were all scratched and they could hardly see the targets.

[spartan0509]

You get a pair of portholes and a PT strap issued to you. They're brown these days, ugly thick things. The old ones had more class! They're actually pretty normal looking after about day 5. Forget contacts.

[jshields19]

thanks for the info guys!

[Lisa 23]

thanks for the info guys!

Yes, this does bother me...how about saying thanks Marines, not guys.

[jshields19]

sorry i will next time!!!

[LJ27]

You will be glad to wear the BC's during table 2 firing because anyone that doesn't have glasses has to wear the eye pro. that they provide, and from talking to the ones in my platoon that had to wear them, they were all scratched and they could hardly see the targets.

Yeah the eye pro sucked. Blurry and scratched. The portholes they have now aren't that bad lookin though. I was supposed to get issued some but slipped thru the cracks somehow.