07/29/04 - This address is good for me and Captain ________. if I am not home my wife can send it to us. We are leaving again September 11. Talk about bad luck. Why not Friday the 13.

07/22/04 - Thank you. Currently, only the green one (LED) is alive and, of course, the old white (LED) one from your first run. The red (LED) one may still be alive but is listed as MIA in Baghdad. The white (LED) was stolen and my green (LED) is still good. For the record the Captain (my Boss) stated that was the best damn flashlight he had and he will order a new one (he is not getting mine.)

03/03/04 - Thank you very much for the recent and up dated samples. Despite my attempts, all but my green one (my new favorite) have been deployed out. ...Your light is just what we have needed for years. A good bright light that requires no logistical support beyond it's initial purchase. Thank you again and I intend to order a few more myself as they are still way better and cheaper then any thing on the market. And, of the one's you gave me, 1 will be in Iraq and 1 in Afghanistan by the end of the month I will give you the feed back as I get it. (And yes I told them to shake them.)

Sometimes a flashlight is more than just a flashlight...^*

Additional NightStar Emergency Flashlight uses...

2. COMBAT AND HOSTILE LOCATIONS

Vibration Proof - "Oh, and as an aside, you can point out your lights are immune to vibration. C-130H kill small electronics by vibrating them apart. That's why my team gave up on Maglights. 20 flight hours and they were done."

Explosive and Hazardous Areas - "...plus as it in non-sparking, mine has been used while clearing Clandestine meth labs (a huge problem on the east and west coast. This may be a selling point with LEA groups as even the best Surefire (flashlight) can spark off a meth lab and, bang, there goes the house and the Team.)"

Diving Light - "found out that that was already part of the plan but it makes a great dive light."

Baton - "A hell of a good baton with that huge magnet. It acts like a pool ball in a sock. Even better if you have it looped with 550 cord like a medieval mace that "lights up and puts lights out."

Translator stick - "...same as above but with multiple applications to get your point across (the point is please don't steal from the nice nurse trying to patch you up.)"

Booby Trap Killer - "Wrap in bubble tape, tie 200ft of 550 cord to end, throw while lit into dark building or down road. The magnet is powerful enough to (A) trip magnetic AP and (B) AT mines as well as those Yugoslavian fast fuse mines that detect electrical output (usually from a human body.) I was wrong. We did kill one of the hot boxes I found that way. My Lt. reminded me. We killed one in Macedonia by chucking it into a building and setting off a MRUD (low powered copy of a U.S. claymore mine) that was under the floor boards. Make sure that when you try this trick you have a sand bag wall or a ballistic wall shield up."

Depth check/sounding light - "(A) Wrap in clear plastic, (B) tape up good, (C) tie knots every 10ft in your 550 cord, (D) drop in water till you hit bottom, (E) pull up, and (F) count wet knots. Your light can go down darn deep and while we do use chem sticks for this tied to a rock we don't always have chem sticks as they are one use items."

Medical Tool - "I know one medic used the magnet to pull spall metal (that turns liquid from impact then hits you and solidifies as it cools.) Of course it still leaves a big necrotic burned wound trail and mass times velocity still apply so it is basically a liquid bullet that skitters around inside as it cools leaving an irregular wound trail and X-ray is worthless as it has left a fine coating of metal all the way through. This shows up as one big multi-branching line. Its about the worst battle field wound to get because even if we can find the metal and get it out you still have a necrotic burn hole punched into you and God help you if it gets into your GI tract and punches bowel or intestine. This one was a second hand account so I wont lay claim but I do know the guy and he said he used it to stabilize and remove subdermal spall that was flecked all through this troopers arm. I can see that working if it was not to deep - otherwise you would just shift the metal around and do more damage than good. Of course the Medic in question is not known for much in the way of compassion. He has put in staples and suture on more then one occasion without the benefit of lidocain (even when we had it) or wound irrigation. He also gives little regard to cosmetic appearance and dog ears just about everything. He is not what we call a team player. He is great with USAF guys but treats the other branches like dogs."

3. OPERATIONS

Hazard - Magnetic - "The down side is your magnet is so damn strong we have to keep the lights away from our computers and med gear. However, that's a small price to pay."

FOD Tool - "Use it for your morning FOD walk it will pick up any little non-aluminum metal bits out of the cracks in the runway."

Magnet tool - "Retrieve dropped small metal items from tough to reach places (A) using 550 cord and (B) dropping the light down into wherever you lost whatever and (C) fish it out (have used this to fish keys out of a drain grate)."

Bluetooth Blocker - "For OPSEC with computers; just put the light about 3 ft anywhere near your terminal and even on an open network - it scrambles the EM transmissions. This prevents people with bluetooth from riding your band width."

Degaussing Tool - Also OPSEC degaussing disks and palm pilots - (I found this one out the hard way.) It takes about 10 seconds to trash a standard disk and half that to wipe a palm memory card. Has no affect on CD-ROM disks, thank God.

Night Missions - "My guys love them. We all use them, and now that you make colors, we wont need to use colored cellophane for night missions."

4. COST SAVINGS

Batteries / Re-supply - "First I would like to praise your flashlight. I am a flight medic who frequently spends long amounts of time in back woods of 3rd world areas where batteries are non-existent. All the cool little tactical LED Surefire lights that cost $200 and are made of titanium-whatever don't do you a bit of good with no batteries. Your light, on the other hand, has worked forever in every condition from the Arctic cold (we are the air wing that rescued that doctor off the South pole) to the heat of Oman. And while I still carry a Photon and a few chem sticks (you always need a plan B and C) I rely on your light as my primary.

"Budget Reduction - "On a bigger scale is ________. They are always looking for ways to cut there budget and this fits the bill. Plus they are cheaper then mag lights (the current standard the mini mag with colored lenses.)

"All Environment Light - "…as I already stated in my last letter, "Polar cold, Desert heat, Tropical salt water & humidity" (Philippines/Panama, hate them both, like a dry heat.)

"Reduce Battery Use - "His agency is definitely looking for something like this they must kill 36 D cells a night per border station and even rechargeable batteries only live about 3 weeks."