[PavelKirilovich]

Yeah, SOP is often to get under a poncho or a shelter-half or your fieldjacket to read your map, using a red lens on the flashlight (torch, for our non-Commonwealth comrades) so as not to give away your position. Shipboard, mention has already been made of the curtains, etc.

I remember a Night Navigation exercise where I ambushed a group of new cadets afraid of the dark and their junior NCO instructor. I blinded the NCO with the torch, having taken off the red lens, then ran around them shouting in Afrikaans and Russian until they panicked and ran off.

Took me a half hour to track them all down. Everyone thought it was funny. Except for our officers, all of whom felt it nessecary to stay at CHQ around a fire. We had glorious "Lee-dars."