Knives For Soldiers

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So I'm a Soldier stationed in Mosul, and I'm wondering if anyone is interested in giving away knives to soldiers who might be able to use them. If so, I'll give you my APO and give any knives that make it here away (I might keep one for myself ;)). Anyway, if anyone's interested, just respond here or PM me.
Thanks guys,
SPC Matthew Fisher
 
Thank you for your service---be careful out there.

Many companies offer special programs and discounts. Smoky Mountain Knife Works (www.smkw.com) has a program that they advertise in all their catalogs. Also, many makers offer a discount to those enlisted in the military, and many custom makers offer significant discouts and special models.

Spyderco was hosting a giveaway of a special-model S30V/Desert-FRN Native to those in the Military---it was featured in an article in BLADE Magazine a few years ago. I don't know if this program is still ongoing.
www.spyderco.com

Thanks again for fighting for freedom, and God bless.

KATN,

Wade
 
We find it's better to work through a program on something like this. Getting into sending knives to people we don't know has led to abuses.
 
Thank you for your service, but this probably isn't the best way to go about getting a free knife.
 
I guess I'm gonna sound like and as$ here, but I'm a e-4 with a pregnant wife and can afford my own knives. I have been given a flashlight, because I am in the military, and I told the gentleman that I could afford one of my own, but he wanted to anyways. I was thankful, sure, but I'm sorry, I would never ask for one. If a knife is that important, one can always forgo an Xbox game, or a turbo for the car, or a round of beers. The government pays us well. Begging is below us.

mike
 
Thank you for your service guys.
I plan on enlisting after high school.

Busse has given away tens of thousands of dallors worth in knives to soldiers.
 
I agree with the other posters---many people have been burned by donating knives to folks that claim they're with the armed forces, but really aren't. That's why I suggested those programs instead of offering a knife out of my own pocket. ;)

Also---for discussion purposes only, not sound assinine---aren't knives like the Native available tax-free and at low prices at the PX? I went with a friend of mine enlisted in the National Guard to the PX on-base at Camp Perry during the NRA National Matches and there were some good prices on nice knives.
 
steelscout30 said:
I agree with the other posters---many people have been burned by donating knives to folks that claim they're with the armed forces, but really aren't. That's why I suggested those programs instead of offering a knife out of my own pocket. ;)

Also---for discussion purposes only, not sound assinine---aren't knives like the Native available tax-free and at low prices at the PX? I went with a friend of mine enlisted in the National Guard to the PX on-base at Camp Perry during the NRA National Matches and there were some good prices on nice knives.
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Whenever I get a knife in person it's at the PX, great knife prices there at tax free. $54.99 for an endura. That's $69.99 plus tax at my cabelas.
 
MJF, you have two PX's in that area that both sell knives below what anyone from CONUS can purchase them for. Get what you want from either of those or go north to Dahouk or Irbil and find one of the hundreds of street side shops that sell knives or trade knives. I found a Lonewolf Diablo DA for $40 and a Becker Companion for $20. Both had been traded to the shop by Soldiers for Surefire flashlights.
If you can't afford that, well, I don't know what to tell ya!
 
I'm in the Army myself and I've never been in a position where I couldn't afford a pocketknife, especially on deployment with the extra pay and no taxes.
 
Dave28210 said:
Just make sure your MOS is stated in your contract. Otherwise they will stick you where they need you, which is somewhere you may not want to be for 4 years. Good luck Bro.
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That just happened to a buddy of mine, he was told Combat Engineer when he signed the papers and now he finds out they changed it to Infantry.
 
Does your school offer a JROTC class and if so did you know if you take 3 years of it you get an automatic paygrade bump right out of basic, that is if your enlisting and not going in as an officer.
 
Here is a small anecdote on how different armies treat their soldiers serving "abroad".
If I reacall it right, the US troops doesnt pay taxes when they are at "war", you get good prices at the PX, and you get really good deals from different companies back home. You even get stuff for free, like knives flashlights, newspapers and stuff.

The Swedish troops serving abroad (Kosovo, A-stan etc) are employed by a "Swedish" employer (the army) and therefore pay taxes in Sweden (about 35%). Also they get some extra pay because you are not able to eat and sleep at home. That is reduced by 80% because the tax people consider walking in BDU all day, sleeping in tents and eating rations to be the same standard as sleeping and eatingg in a normal hotel in Sweden. Also we dont get stuff for free from Swedish companies. What would that be? ABBA Cds, Dala horses, Mora knives, Orrefors crystal glass. I guess that if Swedish soldiers were given that stauuf they probably had to pay taxes for that too.

You US guys are not lucky for spending month and years in nowhere fighting a war that most people dont like. So maybe all the free stuff is a consolation for that.
I dont like the war, but I do not dislike the soldiers. Good luck and take care, all you guys and girls out there in sandland.
 
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