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"Counter-terrorism" knives??
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NapalmCheese
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I mean, the SRK was in fact carried by at least one BUD/S candidate (I saw it on an old VHS movie I have about the SEALs I picked up at the Exchange as a youngin). I would guess it went on at least one counter terrorism mission. Not to mention that picture that makes the rounds of some SEAL (or maybe Special Forces) wearing a Trailmaster. Lynn Thompson legitimately has real for sure counter terrorism knives.
I worked in several third world countries after the army. Cant say I have seen or heard of a 'counter terrorism knife 'before. Realities are even SF only brush over knife combat these days.. No one has time to become Sir lancelot. You got lessons on weapon systems, field craft, nav, rigs, radios, vehicles, combat medicine etc to master. Wouldnt like to take anything that whacky looking into contract either. The first crooked airport official would probably confiscate it for his kid.
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I like knives, guns, impact weapons, etc.... But I know that in the grand scheme of things. The vast majority of our service personnel will be better served with something like a little Buck 110 and its modern equivalency from companies like CRKT, Benchmade, SOG, etc.... A common pocketknife is what the majority need because it is handy to open packages and cut rigging.
Do actual fighting knives still serve a purpose? You bet! So does the bayonet. But in modern combat, where cheap drones are now doing the killing. The chances of getting into a knife fight on the modern battlefield is slim. Can it happen? Yes, of course. The likelihood of it happening though is slimmer than me magically being 7'2" and being the NBA's MVP for the tenth year in a row.
But guess what, my adult brain does sometimes regress to my child brain and I daydream of the adventurous merc somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, or Latin America. Wearing mix-matched BDUs with webbing and LC2s or M1956 H Suspenders with the biggest and most bad ass knife possible, taped to the left side, upside down. And using it to fight to the boss/main villain.
Thank you Lt. Col. Brown for creating the greatest magaizne ever for a young kid to read in the 1980s and early 1990s.
It is because of Soldier of Fortune, that my daydreams are what they are.
Do actual fighting knives still serve a purpose? You bet! So does the bayonet. But in modern combat, where cheap drones are now doing the killing. The chances of getting into a knife fight on the modern battlefield is slim. Can it happen? Yes, of course. The likelihood of it happening though is slimmer than me magically being 7'2" and being the NBA's MVP for the tenth year in a row.
But guess what, my adult brain does sometimes regress to my child brain and I daydream of the adventurous merc somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, or Latin America. Wearing mix-matched BDUs with webbing and LC2s or M1956 H Suspenders with the biggest and most bad ass knife possible, taped to the left side, upside down. And using it to fight to the boss/main villain.
Thank you Lt. Col. Brown for creating the greatest magaizne ever for a young kid to read in the 1980s and early 1990s.
It is because of Soldier of Fortune, that my daydreams are what they are.
Love it! And hey Ive met that guy. He is now older, fatter, working logistics management for KBR , with a local wife and family in Angola or Nigeria because he cant go back to his own country anymore.
The new version is not as exciting, wears khakis or olive drab 511 gear these days- BDU's get held up in customs too often, too many 3rd world countries have bans on unofficial camoflage wear. He also has everything on a chest rig now, sometimes so much stuff if he lay down he would almost be as high as he was standing, because operators dont crawl much now, most of the action is getting in and out of up-armored suburbans, standing around, also harassing cute nurses at the local clinic, and just 'looking operator'. He isnt clean shaven like the old mercs either, now he has an 'operator beard' because even before the hipster thing happened, SF guys were allowed to grow beards in theatre. As such regular operators, hoping to be mistaken for being ex-SF all started wearing beards.
No big knives either now sorry, the big knives were for the jungles and no one likes fighting there any more, not enough oil
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Oh for the good old days of the SOF convention in Vegas. Now that was a fun show!! Bob Brown knew how to throw a party for gun people.
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Nah, the child mind of mine daydreams about adventures like what David McGrady did for Combat Illustrated when he was in Rhodesia.Love it! And hey Ive met that guy. He is now older, fatter, working logistics management for KBR , with a local wife and family in Angola or Nigeria because he cant go back to his own country anymore.
The new version is not as exciting, wears khakis or olive drab 511 gear these days- BDU's get held up in customs too often, too many 3rd world countries have bans on unofficial camoflage wear. He also has everything on a chest rig now, sometimes so much stuff if he lay down he would almost be as high as he was standing, because operators dont crawl much now, most of the action is getting in and out of up-armored suburbans, standing around, also harassing cute nurses at the local clinic, and just 'looking operator'. He isnt clean shaven like the old mercs either, now he has an 'operator beard' because even before the hipster thing happened, SF guys were allowed to grow beards in theatre. As such regular operators, hoping to be mistaken for being ex-SF all started wearing beards.
No big knives either now sorry, the big knives were for the jungles and no one likes fighting there any more, not enough oil
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Never got to attend, but I did speak with Lt. Col. Brown at SHOT Show and the stories he would tell, comparing them to the SOF Conventions. Sounds like it was a heck of a time.
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So, what will this knife do that my PAL Rh 35 hasn't been doing for the last 70 years? 
Separate someone from their money with a higher profit margin?So, what will this knife do that my PAL Rh 35 hasn't been doing for the last 70 years?
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Gerber Mk-2Nah, the child mind of mine daydreams about adventures like what David McGrady did for Combat Illustrated when he was in Rhodesia.
BIG HONKING KNIFE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SUSPENDERS!
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Were these uploaded online anywhere? I find them to be amusing magazines, same with those... Soldier of Fortune, or whatever, magazines, the ones with 80s-era mall ninjas offering their combat services.Nah, the child mind of mine daydreams about adventures like what David McGrady did for Combat Illustrated when he was in Rhodesia.
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Anyone marketing a "counter terrorism" knife, is not marketing towards the spec ops/counter terrorism folks in the field, but rather the laymen who wish they could, and think it makes them feel legit because it's in the name.
Any actual operative I know/have known, prides themselves in simple practicality and utility of the knives they use. Nobody I have ever known in the actual field of counter terrorism is looking to stand out and be flashy, the goal is to blend in, achieve the objective, and survive the mission.
"Counter terrorism" knife is about akin to "assault" rifle verbiage. Stupid at worst, silly at best.
(And for $6k+ on a blade, personally, I'd buy an actual hand forged sword, for slicing and dicing terrorists into pieces, lol)
Any actual operative I know/have known, prides themselves in simple practicality and utility of the knives they use. Nobody I have ever known in the actual field of counter terrorism is looking to stand out and be flashy, the goal is to blend in, achieve the objective, and survive the mission.
"Counter terrorism" knife is about akin to "assault" rifle verbiage. Stupid at worst, silly at best.
(And for $6k+ on a blade, personally, I'd buy an actual hand forged sword, for slicing and dicing terrorists into pieces, lol)
I have the entire printed collection of Soldier of Fortune magazine. From 1975 to 2014, in scanned PDF.
Soldier of Fortune wasn't a joke. They were covering conflicts in places folks wouldn't dare to go. Hell, they even sent "writers" to assist in Rhodesia and later Afghanistan.
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Yeah, I read a little bit on it after this thread had sparked my curiosity - I am sorry, I meant to say, the famous back-pages advertising was very silly at times. The magazine itself is a different story, earliest report I have seen on the AK-74.
They also had the first English review of the GLOCK pistol.
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I still remember a buddy of mine trying to convince me to come with him to Chad to fight Libya. An ad in the back of SOF was looking for border guards, who didn't mind being shot at for good wages, which almost certainly wouldn't result in you being paid in sacks of melons or millet. Unlike the posters in the company lines with clear instructions on how to join the French Foreign Legion, this offer was light on details. My buddy did not go to Chad, but it did get some people talking.
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For 65k the knife better leap from my hand into Osamas neck.