I am sure you can use matches one handed: as well as lighters. I'm also sure you would soon figure out how to use a fire steel, metal match or flint and steel one handed if you thought about it.

You can also use a magnifying glass, fire piston, battery and wire; small arm rounds and pyrotechnics one handed.

To market something on its one handed use is not a great if the design is floored by having the tool way to small to use effectavely.

People often use the "what if your hand is injured" argument when describing the Spark lite. If your hand or arm is that badly injured then the chances are you will be suffering from shock so again you will not be able to use fine motor skills or operate small fiddly items of kit.

Spark lite is a lot better than some of the other products out there but it aint great for cold-land environments. But, you would be a fool if you had no other form of fire lighting in cold-land environments.

I've lit quite a few fires well below freezing with a sparklite, and many more above it. Never had a problem once I had my gloves on. Is that an issue, sure, but I can't work a match with heavy gloves on either.

The sparklite is a compromise item- size of a match, hundreds of lights.

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Can anyone tell me which military survival kits since the 1970s the spark lite has been included in, including date of issue and NSN No of the kit.
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I do know our host Doug Ritter put the spark-lite in the Pocket Survival Pack he designed, currently being sold by Adventure Medical kits, as well as the Doug Ritter Essentials Aviator Survival Vest sold through Aeromedix, and the Spark-Lite is in many if not all of Doug's other kits.
A quick look at a few of the Boulder Outdoor Survivalip School (BOSS) kits had the Spark-Lite in them.
1-814-234-0698 - Oak Norton at Four Seasons Survival may be better to answer your questions about the military uses.

Have you bothered to contact Oak Norton yet as I suggested to get the answer to your question?