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Posted: 6:05 PM Jun 9, 2007
AFA Clinic LASIK Surgery
The Air Force Academy eye surgery clinic, one of the biggest in the military, will soon offer LASIK surgery.
Reports say that the Air Force had previously banned such surgery because it fear pilots ejecting from aircraft at high altitudes might suffer problem. Reporter: AP |
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The Air Force Academy eye surgery clinic, one of the biggest in the military, will soon offer LASIK surgery.
Reports say that the Air Force had previously banned such surgery because it fear pilots ejecting from aircraft at high altitudes might suffer problem.
But now it has decided to go ahead with the laser-assisted technique.
The academy clinic has seen 12-thousand patients since 2001.
Lieutenant Colonel James Burden, an eye surgeon at the academy, expects it to get even busier when the clinic gets a new laser for the LASIK procedure.
Air Force pilots are required to have nearly perfect vision.
The surgery may qualify some who were rejected previously.
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