Soldiers should look cool, not nerdy. Maybe the reason for the persistence of BCGs is that the factory that produces them lies in some powerful representative's district. Though not forced to wear them myself, I am sympathetic to the plight of soldiers adorned with these spectacles. My heart especially goes out to those especially brave souls who augment the BCGs with an attached during the rigors of Army training. Yes, there ought to be a law against forcing soldiers to wear these things.
Sharp soldiers deserve better.
Surely the buyers and wearers of BCGs can see that. Sergeant Wilson One of the best physicians I have ever worked with was a gastroenterologist at Womack Army Hospital. While doing my physician assistant internship rotation through his clinic, something occurred that has become one of the most important lessons I've ever learned. It was a lesson that has been reinforced daily thereafter by the military routine of inspections, procedures, checks and double-checks. After ruling out serious conditions such as cystic fibrosis and asthma, we suspected a tracheal-esophageal fistula, or an abnormal connection between the trachea, the body's air tube to the lungs, and the esophagus, where food is transported from the mouth to the stomach.