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In Winter Mountain Warfare School, they had us 100 MPH tape together a lighter to a Chapstick. That one unit was then taped to your dog tags, so you always had it handy.
If you're planning on handling fuel for a small stove/squad-bomb in the winter, you might want to take a pair of rubber dish washing gloves (thick, water-proof and light-weight), otherwise spilt fuel will soak your fiber-based gloves. Plus, they'lll help prevent frostbite caused by spilling fuel on exposed hands.
I took 4 or 5 cotton balls and smooshed vasaline into them. Once I had them in a small ziplock bag, I'd put a bag at the bottom of each ammo pouch. It was an unobtrusive place to keep them, plus it helped push up the mags a bit. Of course, it would be just as easy to store them in your survival/E&E/blow-out kit. Once you lit one of those, it would burn for quite a while even when cold and wet.
-My $.02
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