Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchak Yosef in his weekly shiur gave some instructions to soldiers as to how they should behave in a situation where they must be present when kol isha is involved.
Rav Yosef said that soldiers in such a situation should lower their glasses, so as not to look at the women singing, and pick up a sefer and bring it close to the eyes and read from thee sefer in such a public way that everyone can see they are not listening to the female singer.
Rav Yosef pointed to himself as an example, saying he himself has done this.
source: Kikar
Rav Yosef's instructions are very well and good, except for two problems:
1. not all soldiers have glasses to publicly remove
2. most of the time soldiers are not carrying seforim, nor are they able to even if they would want to. Perhaps during downtime on the base they might have access to a sefer and be able to follow Rav Yosef's instructions in such a scenario, though I don't see such a scenario happening. If they are going to an official ceremony, which is where these problems usually happen, the soldiers will not be carrying seforim with them.
Rav Yosef should give them some more realistic, or plausible, instructions that will actually be helpful.
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