This is my 100th post since starting the blog last spring. We are almost 5 months in country now, with 7 to go. Hope y'all have enjoyed the eclectic nature of the posts.
I joined the Navy in May of 2006 and in anticipation of boot camp, I purchased durable photo-sensitive glasses. I normally wear contacts but did not think that would work well at Officer Indoctrination School. Since they did not allow anyone to wear sunglasses (What!? No Tom Cruise/Top Gun look???), I was the only one with dark eye protection since mine were considered glasses. The glasses darken with UV light; at 3500 feet above sea level and the brilliant white snow all around, they get really dark as shown. They take about 4 minutes to clear when that dark so I grope around like a blind man when I arrive at the hospital. Again, glad to have them since a windy and (usually) dusty environment mitigates against contacts. Since I can get Lasik from the Navy for free, maybe it's time....
3 comments:
I love the posts and the pictures. Seeing photos of you is a great comfort, having a visual that you are doing well. No sunglasses at OIS??? How does the Navy feel about paying for your cataract surgery?
Eclectic is great. We're getting a taste of a wide range of your experiences.
I forget - has the internet situation there finally been resolved?
Technically, it's laser reshaping of the cornea in the front of the eye; cataract surgery is removal of a clouded lens that sits behind the iris. The Navy has the high tech tools and if I am willing to wait for an opening, they'll do it gratis. OIS did give us ballcaps to wear with a big "OIS" on them; however, we couldn't wear them with our khaki uniforms.
The free internet provided for the camp in general was down for several days early in the month and again recently. Someone went to a (forbidden) malicious website and managed to shut down the public internet used by coalition forces in the whole country. Back up as of today. This had no impact on the commercially provided satellite internet that a colleague and I set up. We have to pay >$100 per month each to use it, but it's much faster and only goes down when the power fails. We have a waiting of subscribers wanting to sign up.
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