Frame help needed FGG RD

[LENNY]

I need help identifying the frame. I think its a metal aviator
The info I have is Frame : FGG
Manuf : RD
58-20-145 skull Gold

The job was done in NOSTRA in Yorktown, VA

Help Help Help!

[LENNY]

Found this also!

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (NNS) -- The Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Command (NOSTRA) introduced its latest �Frames of Choice� program, offering an additional six new choices for active-duty Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard personnel Nov. 1.

�Frames of choice are civilian-style frames offered to active-duty military members,� said Cmdr. Matthew E. Newton, NOSTRA executive officer.

The new frames will be rolled out incrementally with availability depending on the service member�s location. Military retirees, regardless of rank, are not eligible for the new frames under this program.

NOSTRA, located at the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station in Virginia, is one of 24 labs in the Optical Fabrication Enterprise (OFE) that fabricate eyewear for all eligible personnel. The OFE also includes eight Army fabrication labs. As DOD�s �tertiary� fabrication site, NOSTRA has the people and equipment needed to fabricate the most complex prescriptions filled in the military. And, NOSTRA is the training site for Navy and Army personnel training to become laboratory and clinical opticians through the Tri-Service Optician School.

The frames of choice program is not new to the Navy. The original program began in 1996 and also offered six styles. Two of the original six styles will still be available under the roll out, expanding the total to eight.

Before 1996, there were no choices in Navy eyeglasses, Newton explained. Active-duty personnel choices were to wear the boot camp issued pair or pay out of pocket for eye glasses purchased at civilian shops. Operationally required eyeglasses were available for personnel serving in some operational positions, such as aboard submarines or in a flight-crew status, and remain available.

The frames of choice program began in part when advertisements in the early 1990s poked fun of service members wearing the standard military issue frames, known affectionately as �BCGs,� or Birth Control Glasses.

�It became a quality-of-life issue,� Newton said. �The advertisements made that very clear. After this, the Department of the Navy medical department started the process of developing a program to begin offering choice of frames to active-duty personnel.�

Newton said active-duty service members who have not been issued a frame of choice during the past year from a military fabrication lab are eligible to order new frames of choice eyeglasses, even though they may be wearing military-issued eye glasses or glasses that were purchased from a civilian store. All that is required is a current eye exam that is less than two years old.

�Current guidelines are that personnel can have one frame of choice per year,� Newton said. �If during that year they damage or lose their eyeglasses, they can request another pair. If their eyesight changes to the point they need a new prescription, they can also get an additional frame of choice. And, we do not require they send in the old frames.�

Active-duty personnel or Reservists/Guardsmen serving on active duty more than 30 days may get frames of their choice by visiting their local optometry clinic or ordering on line at the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity Web site, http://nostra.norfolk.navy.mil/sending.cfm. A new Web site will be up by Nov. 30, http://nostra.norfolk.navy.mil. An order form (DD771) and instructions on how to complete the form are at the Web sites.

For related news, visit the Navy Medicine Support Command Navy NewsStand page atwww.news.navy.mil/local/nmsc/.

[Wes]

RD is Randolph. These Flight Goggle Gold (FGG) frames are also made by American Optical.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...ac.teDhrLXId8I
http://theguisearchives.com/american...h-engineering/

[LENNY]

Thanks!
So you think its more square aviator?

On RE website they have FGN frame. Is it the same as FGG?

http://www.randolphusa.com/product-categories/rx/#fgn

[Wes]

The FGN is a newer, rounder (and in my opinion, uglier) frame. The old FGG was more angular. Post a pic if you can.
Edit: the FGG should be the same shape as the Aviator they list on the site.

[Jacqui]

Are you talking about the old Skymaster that AO designed and made for civilian use and Randolph made for the USAF??

[LENNY]

So RGG looks like Aviator on RE website!?

[Wes]

That's the Aviator shape. NOSTRA is our sister lab. Be make a few dozen of those a week.

[Wes]

Here's a couple I'm working on now. The gold is a FGN; the silver is an Aviator.

[wearegood]

Should the size be that accurate?

[Wes]

Should the size be that accurate?

I'm not sure I understand your question. Can you elaborate?