I have a Green Beret, and I really like it. The closest knife I have to it is a Cold Steel SRK in San Mai, and the CRK is about 100x better. I have had all kinds of problems with the SRK after doing just a couple very light chores (chopped a tomato plant, and a dog tick, and cleaned up some little dog tick sprouts), and ended up doing the exact same things with the CRK and it excelled. The edge is just as sharp as the day I bought it and I've never sharpened it.
The handle is different - but it works. It fits my hand pretty well, and retention is incredible. Since the Micarta doesn't go to the edge of the tang, it keeps the knife from rotating in your hand. The grip geometry puts the swell in your hand, and the material in combination with the curves mean that your hand won't slip back or forward. The first thing that drawn me to it was the aesthetics - I still think it's one of the best looking fighting knives ever made, and Micarta and a good gray coating is a great combination. I do think the handle could be improved with a different shape on the finger grooves, and I wish there was a thumb ramp - the back guard makes it hard to use your thumb for leverage. I also don't care for the serrations. A lot of people don't give S35VN the credit I think it deserves. The edges are so smooth on an S35VN knife that is sharpened properly, and it addresses most of the shortcomings of S30V. A2 or 3V might be a better steel for a fighting knife, but if I'm pretty sure they'd both be harder to sharpen than CRK's S35VN, which is a real consideration when a blade might be going down range. You already have too much job to do, and you're already going to spend a lot of time maintaining your rifle - less maintenance on your knife is nothing but an advantage.
There are better choppers. A Fairbarn Sykes dagger would be a better stabber. There are steels that would get a sharper edge. However, given the wide ranging needs of a modern soldier and an individual's tendency to prepare for far worst than he is likely to face, the design choices CRK made are very defensible, and could arguably be the best choices from a holistic POV. It retains great fighting capability (specifically stabbing. It's a last ditch weapon and a sneak attack weapon in a modern war, an when you're wrestling with an enemy combatant or catching their back turned, it isn't going to be a cutty slashy knife fight), but still has impressive capabilities on a wide range of everyday chores.
I like the Green Beret. I reaally like the Green Beret as a solider's knife. I love it as a collectible because it looks great.
