I read in Marlantes' book about the arrangements one of Rommel's recon units made with the British recon regiments. Since the desert is really, really dark after sunset, both sides shut down at that time, for fear of getting very lost. They arranged an informal agreement to stop patrolling at 5pm. That then grew into nightly radio calls to let the other side know if one of their patrols was lost in the desert, or had been picked up during the day, and so on.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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