How To Order: Remote Locations

If you are in a designated, remote location (more than 50 miles) from an ordering site, you may be able to take advantage of these remote ordering procedures. To confirm that you are in a remote location, visit the Tricare Prime website at http://www.tricare.mil/mtf and enter your zip code in the "Search for Eligibility" section.

For information on eligibility and to set up an eye exam, please visit the Tricare website located here: http://www.tricare.mil/CoveredServices/Vision/EyeExams.aspx.

If you do not have a military ordering site location near you, then follow the directions below to order your eyewear.

Ordering Instructions:

- If you are more than 50 miles from a military health clinic with optometry services, you may follow these instructions to order your glasses.
- Visit the "Spectacles" section of our website. There you will see a detailed description of the frames and lenses that are available for ordering along with pictures and links to the DD-771 forms to order your eyewear.
- Please fill out the highlighted area of the DD-771 form. Make sure to save the form with the information you added. (If you do not know your pupillary distance (PD), lens, and/or your prescription, please disregard those sections and have the examining facility fill in the rest.)
- Print the form and take this with you to your eye exam. Ensure that the examining facility writes the prescription, and includes your pupillary distance (PD) on the form.
- If your examining facility needs eye size, bridge, or temple length information, they may find this on our web site.
- If you require bifocals, please include the bifocal height as part of the prescription. If left blank, we will fill the order using a measurement of 3 mm's below the midline portion of the frame.
- If you currently have standard issue frames, please provide the frame size and temple length that is found inside the frame.
- There must be a DD-771 form filled out for each pair of eyewear requested. Make sure you write “REMOTE DUTY or RECRUITING DUTY” on the form.

Send the following information to NORA Yorktown:
- One copy of the completed DD771 form
- Your mailing address, daytime phone number, and email address if available
- Requests are subject to DEERS eligibility check

You may submit your order for eyewear by email, fax or standard mail.

Email your order to: usn.nora.customerservice@health.mil
Fax your order to: 757-887-4647.
Please call NORA Yorktown Customer Service at 757-887-7600. Option 1 right after you send your fax to insure we received it and that all the information is included to fabricate your orders.

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Standard Mail to:

NORA
160 Main Road, STE 350
Yorktown, VA 23691-9984
You may email us at: usn.nora.customerservice@health.mil

You may also call NORA Customer Service Department at 757-887-7600 Option 1, if you have any problems or questions.
Our Customer Service hours are Monday through Friday from 0700 to 1600 EST.

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