[DutchmenSport]

Shine and luster????? My comment has nothing to do with your topic, but you sparked a memory for me.

I was in Basic Training, (Fort Dix, NJ - November 1982) and we'd reached that point in our 8 weeks of basic training where we went out for bivouac when we qualified for our riffles.

One day, the Drill Sargent spotted one of us recruits and pulled him out in front formation. He had him stand at Parade Rest and he inspected him. He then took the guys glasses off his head and smeared some of that black face make-up we were all required to wear. He then handed the glasses back to the guy and had put them on and then told us he was not waring his military issued glasses. He was wearing his civilian glasses. Wearing the glasses was not wrong. BUT, because they had shiny silver they would reflect light. And even in deep woods, you don't want to wear anything that reflects light when you are in combat!

It made me stop and think real hard! I never forgot that!

When I ended up in Korea a couple years after that and when we went out to the field, I always made sure I wore my goofie looking black plastic, army issued glasses. Once back in garrison, it didn't matter. (I was in 1/72 Armor Battalion - 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Casey).