If you wear the contact lenses, you may easily cause the broken blood vessels because the eyes can't get the full breathe. It may hurt your eyes. You just wear the eyeglasses for the vision. Helpful 0 Report Abuse. Absolutely no, it is not allowed to wear contact lenses during that training.
And you could not wear personal glasses, neither. Because there is specific conform to military dress and appearance regulations. At the same time, it is too risky if you wear contact lenses for the training.
There is a complete eye examination in the beginning of the basic training, you would be issued BC glasses that are a type of hard breaking glasses if your eyesight cannot achieve normal standard. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser.
It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. No contact lens at Basic? Thread starter Southpaw3 Start date Jan 17, Southpaw3 Member. Joined Jan 7, Messages My mother is under the impression that basics are not allowed to wear prescription contact lens during basic training.
She claims they are forced to wear glasses. Is this true? I'm not complaining if it's the case, I'd wear a clown nose if they told me to Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads.
Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Careers Air Force Jobs. Learn about our editorial policies. Updated on December 02, I thought my gasings were made slightly less irritating with my contacts in. Same with swimming If 30 dayers existed in my time in my prescription I'd have worn em right through training.
I'd blag some daily disposable of your friendly optician as they are quite handy and you can ditch them with no financial or logistical pain Do not however wear any lenses if you have the misfortune to do a mud run at CTCRM.
StabTiffy2B said:. I just said that perhaps they will consider letting me have laser surgery before deployment as the US and some british soldiers as far as i've heard have done. Not to long ago any form of laser eye treatment was an instant medical rejection for service in the Army.
They recently changed the policy to look at each case individually. Depending on the type of treatment carried out, the time since carried out and the final outcome of the surgery you may be considered. This is subject to final medical approval. Entry will not be considered for those who have had RK, AK or any other type incisional refractive surgery other than those listed above.
All invasive intraocular surgical procedures will remain a bar to entry. Those who apply must meet 6 basic entry criteria; it will take at least 12 months from the date of surgery for the tests to be completed. If the final result leads to a loss of vision and it can you will be discharged with no compensation rights. Post reply. Similar threads. Shooting with Poor Eyesight. Replies 32 Views 3K. Contact lenses in basic and on tour..
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