Posted by MoparNorm on Saturday, May 26, 2001 at 9:18PM :
In Reply to: Educate a dummy -- need help and clarification posted by Robert on Saturday, May 26, 2001 at 8:06PM :
Hi Robert,
Are you sure that it doesn't say, "b.o. marker stoplight" ?
I haven't looked at the military switches in years, but from my experience 30 years ago, that was "Black Out Marker Stoplight" The Black out lights are for combat running. It would seem at first that you can't see a darn thing, but they really do work at night, because of a visual trick that we used to navigate by. The b.o. marker drive lights (front) and the b.o. marker stop lights were called "cat eyes" by us G.I.'s. There were four "cat eyes" in the rear, those little triangle lights above the b.o. drive lights. When you were too close to the vehicle in front of you, you saw all four lights,(that's bad!) when you were too far back, you only saw one light and when you were following at just the right distance you saw two. That was all because the four tiny lights would merge into 4, 2 or 1 depending upon how far away you followed. The same was true for the front b.o.markers. Everyone could could see pretty well at night except for the first vehicle, he really had to work since there were no lights for him to follow. The only draw back was, if the first vehicle drove off a clift, you might see 10 vehicles follow him!!
MoparNorm
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