Buckmaster

to protect your hand in a knife fight. the real answer is about just as silly.......grapple capabilities.....
 
As mentioned in the linked article it's not intended as a grapple in the convention sense like in scaling a wall but rather to secure something using the knife as an anchor. Picture a Navy SEAL swimming to up a pier, removing his swim gear, tying it to the knife and hooking the knife to the pilings so his gear remains in place until his return.
 
don't know of any real world instance where it was used as the designers/makers had intended it to.
For what it's worth, i can't imagine not ever having the pair now to complete the picture of koolness.
Think of it more as some form of ornamental add-ons
And like classic car tail fins,
it just wouldn't be looking awesome without it.
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Navy seals are waterborne and the anchors are intended to help swimmers hold in place while executing a mission. Jamming a peg in rocks and tying off with a lanyard would certainly beat swimming against the current for 20 minutes, while you are waiting for a barrage to arrive; and the blade can stay safely secure in its sheath while you do that, so you are less likely to hurt yourself or the blade.

n2s
 
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