Oh yes, the ol' potbelly stoves. they worked great in a squad tent..as you wrote, wind could change everything in a minute. I used to volunteer for agressor details..one of our favorite things was to pee or lay a pile in a #10 can and run thru an "enemy" tent and lay it on the stove without waking anyone up... After a half hour, it was worse that CN teargas.

Next was to find a tank with everyone asleep. Don't care how much a Bad A the CO was, you could always find one tank without a sentry or radio watch. Put a guard over the crew in case they woke up...then I'd lace a CN grenade to the inside handle of the driver's & TC hatches, leave them closed and exit the loaders hatch, and a couple red smoke grenades to the eccellerator linkage. BIG surprise when they had to get up and man the tank in a hurry.[:@] Wasn't anything I couldn't booby trap. We were against M-103 heavies in Germany..we spotted one in the treeline across the field that had no movement aroud it. on checking, we saw that the entire crew was down the hill in a Gasthaus for some bier and dinner. My loader used to work on M-103s and knew it , so we climbed in and removed the breech block, carried it (120 lbs) back to my tank, radio'd my CO, who picked it up and presented it to the "enemy" Bn CO. Things did NOT go well for the M-103's TC.

The good ol "real Army" that has since become very stiff and technology oriented. Do something like that today, and they'd have you up on charges.