Aviator Goes Underground Instead of Airborne

Cruel & Unusual Punishment
No ordinary flashlight should be expected to endure this kind of abuse. And SureFire is certainly no ordinary flashlight.

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While supervising a job in the oilfields overseas, things started going wrong with the cement mixer. I climbed on top to help, when one of the hoses busted, knocking the tank light off. So I pulled out my SureFire A2 Aviator® to illuminate the mixer while we worked on the problem.

After we fixed the problem with the mixer, one of the employees asked to see my flashlight so he could keep an eye on the level of slurry in the tank. When I handed him my light, he dropped it into the slurry. I had to laugh because I knew the slurry was being pumped into the oil well, and all I could think about was how dark it is 11,000 feet underground and how my Aviator would be lighting up the bottom of the well. The next day, an operator came in, holding my flashlight - it was scratched to hell and dinged up, with bits of hard cement still on it. The operator told me that when they flushed the lines he saw it on the edge of the pit. I turned it on, but it didn't work, so I changed the batteries and, sure enough, it fired right up!

That was two years ago. That same flashlight is still working and goes with me on every job - I just don't let anyone borrow it anymore.

Shannon S.
Duncan, OK