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sl8

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2. She says that the brown BCGs were introduced in the mid 70s, they were black before that.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 19, 2022, 08:24 AM

Apr 2022

I think they still had plenty of the black ones left in the late 70s.

Regarding the glasses designed to fit under gas masks, I still have a pair. We called them “OBA glasses" in the Navy. (OBA = Oxygen Breathing Apparatus" )

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