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I know exactly what she is going through.

When I was the Airboss on a ship during the first Persian Gulf war, I was required to qualify as Officer of the Deck (OOD) and have my own watch section. Which I did. Amazing management experience while sleep deprived.

Thank god the ships Boatswain's Mate (WO4 Bird) took pity on me an served as my JOOD for most watches.

To your question, she needs her own. After using the bridge pairs with eye cooties from every knucklehead on watch before me, I bought my own pair after my first underway period standing bridge watch.

Bird told me not to worry about magnification beyond 7/8x...the average visual horizon from the bridge of a destroyer/frigate is just over 11 miles, after that the curvature of the earth wins. CIC will track the big guys, the Big Eyes can reach out and touch the horizon. Close in, 1/2 to 4 miles is the sweet spot.

I bought the 1990's version of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C66C784/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00C66C784&linkCode=as2&tag=bestprodtagd3534-20

Light, great ergonomics with rubber eye caps (key). Make sure they fit her. I gave them to my Airboss relief, along with my Trek bike

Do not get stabilized anything...not needed and may not do well in the Aegis electro magnetic environment - or running out of juice while on watch.

Give her my best. OOD is hard.
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