DOGGLES

FASHION ALERT: Remember those "rec specs" that vision-impaired children used to wear to play sports? The ones you refused to wear because you thought they were so nerdy? The ones Seth Green wore on his head in Can't Hardly Wait? The ones you constantly made fun of on your peers? Well, the time has finally come to eat your words.

I mean it. Open. up. and. eat. them.

Why? They're part of the new specialized equipment, being outfitted on America's military dogs, during their combat operations abroad. You heard right. These badass canines now sport oxygen masks (to protect their lungs, as they parachute out of choppers with soldiers), waterproof vests (containing infrared cameras that transmit video back to servicemen watching in monitors behind them, and... wait for it... "doggles" to protect their eyes.

I'm not lying. Check out Foreign Policy's awesome photo essay on war dogs here, if you don't believe me. Actually, check it out, even if you do believe me. It's worth it.

And if that information isn't enough to convince you that doggles (the artist formerly known as rec specs) are now 100% badass, then I'll bet this will:

According to the New York Times, one of these hooked-up military dogs was strapped onto a member of the US Navy SEAL assault team as they were lowered out of a Black Hawk helicopter this weekend and began the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. 'Nuff said.