[LZ_Bayonet]

“Man, they all see us,” Lance Corporal Maguire said, and lighted another cigarette.

The media badly screws things up, so let's not all comment on the cause and effect relationship of smoking a cigarette and being seen. He probably lit up back at base and said, "They saw us, so we had to leave."

[rlmorel]

I picked up on that as well. It didn't seem likely he would be sitting up somewhere scanning or looking at insurgents as he lights a cigarette.

Unless they didn't care if the insurgents saw them.