Most soldiers don't carry a knife period and if they do it is usually a multitool or a POS bought at the PX, abused until it is destroyed and then replaced with another POS. This is my first desk job, in some ways rank sucks, but when I was a team leader I required my soldiers to have a knife and a flashlight everytime we rolled out of the motorpool gate I went so far as to make it part of my PCI checks. I started this because it was a constant aggravation for soldiers to always borrow mine, especially when I loaned out my spyderco police and it was returned with half an inch broken off the tip.
I understand that specialized tools are requried for different jobs, military, police, SAR, that's you skammer, however, here I am talking woodcraft and I do not recognize the use of sharpened pry bars in the woods. Not only do I not recognize them I think they are worthless weight in 99% of all woods work, there are much better tools for wilderness trekking, or for that matter general utility IMO.
One thing about this thread that people can't seem to get through their head is I am talking about a style of knife not the price. Gene Ingram makes some wonderful woods knives that are far from cheap and I constantly lust after them, however to say that their performance is 20 or 30 times better than a mora is not true. Chris