Contact lenses

[scoolbubba]

I'm here in flight training on a soft contact lens waiver. I went in to the optometrists office for a check on my script and thought "sweet, i'm in the navy...I'm a student pilot...I need CL's to fly his planes...so...Uncle will pay for them, right?"

Considering I haven't had a script filled since I commissioned a little over a year ago, and have only been to the docs and dentist's once (outside of flight physicals), I didn't feel that bad about Uncle takin' care of me.

wrong. According to the Doc's assistant, they can write the script, but I still have to cough up the dinero for lenses wherever i choose to order them from. Her line that "only winged aviators get their lenses paid for" seemed retarded.

Anyone else run into this, or is this lady feeding me a line of potentially expensive bullshit? Do unpinned SWOs have to pay for their contact lenses?

 

[Spekkio]

As an unpinned submariner, yes I have to pay for contacts. No one ever indicated that the Navy would eventually pay for them, even after getting dolphins.

 

[PropAddict]

My buddy in K'rock on a contact waiver has to buy his own lenses. He was bitching about it last weekend. . .

When I had Mk1Mod0 eyeballs and needed contacts, I always had to buy them (those were MIDN days). The Mod1 PRK upgrade package was free, though.

 

[scoolbubba]

Alright, I guess I'll suck it up and deal with it. I need to get that Mod 1 upgrade, stat.

200 bones still kicks me in the nuts. That's a lot of hookers and blow, 'specially in corpus.

 

[feddoc]

You are too picky. About the hookers.

 

[D_Rob]

You are too picky. About the hookers.

But not about the blow?

 

[BACONATOR]

They get paid for when you have chest-candy, and not a minute before. Just wear glasses, dude. They're free!

 

[scoolbubba]

Otto! You're back!

I thought about rocking the sweet Flight Frames they hooked me up with, but i'd instantly find my picture confused for every child molester who ever lived.

Mustache March + flight frames= chester the molester.

 

[BACONATOR]

Otto! You're back!

I thought about rocking the sweet Flight Frames they hooked me up with, but i'd instantly find my picture confused for every child molester who ever lived.

Mustache March + flight frames= chester the molester.

What are you talking about? I wear the gold, clear, aviators when I fly. Your IP might make fun of you, but whatever. They are STYLISH!

And it's not the glasses that make you a pedophile. It's the beard: