[Boatanchors] Color blindness

[Oliver J. Dragon]

I had much the same experience at my draft-physical exam at Whitehall St. 
in Manhattan in 1963. I got the first page ok, and maybe the second. After 
that I really couldn't see any numbers in the dots but the guy was flipping 
the pages so quickly I didn't have enough time to reply anyway. You guessed 
it, I passed the test.

Ollie.

At 10:58 AM 12/15/2004, William L Howard wrote:

>. When I took the physical for the army, they brought out that infernal
>book
> > and said, "Read the numbers." The only one I could see was on the
>first
> > page, because it was black and white dots. Then as a backup test in
>case you're
> > faking, they ask you, "How do you know when a traffic signal is red?"
>If you
> > ARE  partially colorblind, you will know the answer to that question.
>I'm not
> > totally  color blind, but I'd be lost without my ohmmeter. Even it
>doesn't help
> > sorting  pairs in the newer telephone cable.
>
>When I went to ROTC summer camp and took the physical, the examiner
>turned each page, whispered, "what number do you see?" When I finished
>the color blindness test, I discovered I had also passed the hearing
>test!
>
>So much for army physicals in the 1960s.
>
>Bill Howard
>
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