Yes the Dutch military has always been a little more relaxed on the rules. US is super strict and some things are ridiculously so, hehe

P.s Soldiers in the Dutch army could pick their own glasses.

Anyway I don’t think it really mattered for the soldiers in Germany back then since they had the Reeper bahn 😳..

I guess it depends on the person wearing them, haha… Like Joker in Full Metal Jacket :p

Yeah the wiki even says ‘Birth control glasses’ lmao

I googled them, are they called GI glasses? I don’t think they look bad. At least not on the guy I see in the picture of them (Vietnam Era glasses)

Edit: missed a few words.

He’s/we are Dutch

Later in his life, he met me, and saved my life.

If anything this man deserves a decoration. It hasn’t always been easy but I’m proud of him. He’s been more than a father to me than my own biological father.

My foster dad is a cool one. He mainly drove big trucks for supply and such. But there was a communist faction in Germany called the Rote Armee Fraktion (also known as Baader-Meinhof) And one night he was posted as a guard together with one of his colleagues at a munition depot. Turns out they (The Rote Armee) invaded the terrain they were guarding and they tried to steal the munitions and weapons, my foster dad’s fellow soldier ran away. My foster dad stood his ground. Let’s just say it didn’t end well for the Rote Armee. It’s something he doesn’t really like talking about, which is logical. But he’s one badass of a man. One of the few soldiers that saw action in Germany after WII. He even got a medal, which he threw away. It still haunts him in his dreams sometimes, not often, but sometimes…