Using US Night Vision Monoculars, a soldier can conduct his combat missions without any active illumination sources using only image intensifiers. The main advantages of image intensifiers in a monocular as a night vision device is the small size, lightweight, low power requirements and low cost. These attributes have enabled image intensifier Night Vision Monoculars individual soldier applications and resulted in hundreds of thousands of Night Vision Monoculars to be procured by the US Army, Marines, Air force, Navy and Coast Guard from US Night Vision Corporation.