If you were deploying... (hypothetical)

It would be very similar to when I head to the woods.
It would depend almost entirely on my mood. :)

Today it would be the Benchmade Resistor, and maybe the ZT 0102 axe.

Tomorrow could be an entirely different idea.
I might just bring whatever folder I liked most that week and buy some form of fixed blade in whatever country I was getting stuck in.

But somehow I think the army might balk at my need for a cane and muscle relaxers to walk much, so I doubt I have to worry overly about deployment options. :D

(Hold on, what I meant to write is that the army begs me on a daily basis to enlist and solve the world's problems, and when I agree to do so for a huge sum of gold, I'll use a Conan sword and a belt-fed machinegun, both of which are easy to carry with my massively muscled arms and unbreakable back. Yeah, that sounds better. :thumbup:)
 
Folder: something medium & stout
ZT 0562/0620/0630
Benchmade Adamas/AFO/CLA
Fixed: 4-6".
CRK Green Beret 5.5
Coye Ridgeback or 105
Benchmade Adamas Fixed
Busse TGLB-M
 
My VA Primary Care Doc thinks I should take a titanium CRK folder to match my two artificial hips the VA has given me and a CRK Pacific to stop the pain when it gets too extreme. If I had been given a choice when I was in Vietnam, I would have opted for more mags.
 
I'd probably take a fixed blade in Z-FiNit of my own manufacture and a waved Delica PE.
 
Fixed: ZT 0180 > Contego as second choice.
Folder: Endura DLC, half serrated.
 
Cold steel code 4

Busse tglb.

Own both, love both.

However if it got to the stage where the British army was willing to take a (reasonably fit) guy with titanium and bone grafts in both legs then the situation must be pretty desperate!
 
With the caveat that I have no military experience, and don't claim to know what would actually be useful on a deployment.....

(OP originally states that a good MT is assumed - but I'd go with a LM MUTT)

Folder: Spyderco PM2 or Manix2

Fixed: I swap it out for a good axe. Something like the Gerber Downrange or Baker Magnum. I imagine the extra weight would be offset by the ability to pry, breach, dig, etc...
 
nedflow said:
Served in a Marine grunt unit and after the first 27 mile forced march every groundpounder started dropping whatever gear they could, including the tacti-cool fixed blades they just purchased. Most just kept some type of light folder for opening MREs,cutting 550 cord,etc.
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This^

SAK Huntsman for personal hygiene (blisters and cutting toe nails) and office tasks (fablon maps).
Multitool for camp. I like the Leatherman Charge TTi but its heavy.
A folder like a Spyderco Military for out of camp. Whatever you fancy, best if repeatable/easy to buy again.

I gave a Skrama to a SAS trooper last year for his jungle training. Skrama is a thinking man's golock. He got top of course. But then thats specialist kit for a specialise environment.

SRK and Karbar sized utility/combat knives have a place but less and less so. With the way the military works today they haven't the same amount of use of old, so very optional; absolutely no need to go big and heavy. A Survive Knives GSO would be my choice.
 
spyderco manix2
fallkniven f1

If feeling super high speed, my sakimori will also be riding on my lbe. You know, I am a lover of knives hahaha.
 
GREENJACKET said:
This^

SRK and Karbar sized utility/combat knives have a place but less and less so. With the way the military works today they haven't the same amount of use of old, so very optional; absolutely no need to go big and heavy. A Survive Knives GSO would be my choice.
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Weight conscious you say? About the last thing you want lug around weight wise is one of those pointless and extra-heavy full tangs... (That also make the sheath quite a bit more top-heavy as a bonus)

Unless you are going to be batoning all day, none of that extra strength will be of any use... It will also transmit nice vibrations to your hand unless it is even more heavy, as in the full 1/4" stock range... By that point you might as well carry an anvil.

Full tangs, even if slightly tapered, carry about as much extra metal in the handle as a whole slim 5" blade is made of, if not more...

I'd rather have the spare blade...

Gaston
 
Large fixed my Randall model 14
Small fixed Esee 3
Leatherman wave
And my umnumzaan. Or my BM triage
 
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Gaston444 said:
Weight conscious you say? About the last thing you want lug around weight wise is one of those pointless and extra-heavy full tangs... (That also make the sheath quite a bit more top-heavy as a bonus)

Unless you are going to be batoning all day, none of that extra strength will be of any use... It will also transmit nice vibrations to your hand unless it is even more heavy, as in the full 1/4" stock range... By that point you might as well carry an anvil.

Full tangs, even if slightly tapered, carry about as much extra metal in the handle as a whole slim 5" blade is made of, if not more...

I'd rather have the spare blade...

Gaston
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I mostly agree with you, however the GSO's that I have aren't particularly heavy given the whole package, not much in it to say a KarBar. I agree the combat sheath knife doesn't have to be a brick. Depending on the theatre you are operating in dictates if there is much use for one; sandpits not a lot of use for one. I've done a few Survival, E&E courses and I like my bushcraft so like my knives, but you pack it you carry it. Over the years the combat knife gets smaller and shorter to the point a folder does it. If needs must these three are fine (I just like the GSO's build and function more though could be pointier; whatever you fancy its no big deal):
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This type thread comes up frequently, I've said what I think often enough. Not much "knife" needed today.
 
In my hypothetical deployment, what I really need is tank driving skills.
That might make up for not being able to walk far and fast enough to keep up with the other troops. :D

Then I can carry whatever fixed blade and folder I want, because tanks can keep rolling no matter how heavy your knife is. ;)
 
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