Military Brings End to Birth Control Glasses
The famous Basic Training-issued BCGs, once the brown-rimmed, awkward-looking but sturdily-built hallmark of basic trainees, are officially dead.
Military recruits who wear glasses no longer will have to endure the embarrassment of sporting BCGs — those beloved standard-issue specs, technically called S9s, which are universally known as “Birth Control Glasses” because they’re supposedly so unattractive.
Yet another “tradition” falls to progress…
In recent years, BCGs here have been lacking severely in durability…
Valid. The “durability” of BCGs was probably more “tradition” than fact.