As a non military person myself, I ONLY use the strobe function of the flash light.

Unlike most of you, I use my light in blinky mode (to be seen) since I live in a large city with enough street light to see the road.

For your reference, I have this MTE P7 sku13060 8-mode flashlight. I always have it on the 3rd mode (which I call the epileptic seizure mode). I think it blinks somewhere around 5 - 10x per second. I never really counted because I get a headache from looking at it. Sometimes I have to turn the light off for a few minutes because I'd get dizzy if I'm riding too long with it on.