Registered: 12/23/05
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Loc: San Francisco Bay Area, USA
IIRC, red is to preserve night vision, green originally would show a blood trail better in the dark (as well as NVG use, stated above) and blue (flashing) distinguishes you from ground fire (which is usually white).
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