“upgraded to a single bar...”
You win the post of the day award.
Well, it did save my nose when someone stepped on the back of my helmet and I came up with a bar full of mud.
Not sure but I think it was ‘optional’ though I don’t think I would have been ‘intelligent’ enough to willingly put that ‘sissy looking’ thing on.
All to no avail as my nose was permanently ‘rearranged’ while engaging in some pugilistic NON Queensbury rules activities while enjoying adult beverages with several shipmates in some dive in Hong Kong