Met a former Navy Seal the other night...

steven seals your fate when he pulls out his onion.
by that i mean he's driven to kill each time he adjusts the seat of his pants.
Hooyah!
btw, this is a real blast...
www.empiremovies.com/2010/07/16/machete-posters-and-new-trailer/machete-steven-seagal/
 
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I don't think I have personally met anyone in the military, Seal, Green Beret, Ranger, or otherwise that actually cared what knife they carried. My Grandfather came back from the Pacific with a Mark I Navy, my father was Army ROTC, had a Camillus Pilot knife, even though he was not a pilot. Most folks I have met out of the military had a Demo Knife (Camillus 1760), My brother is on his way to BUD/S in January, pre Training in Chicago in November. He will probably get a Mark 3 for training, but not until Coronado. I have asked him if he wants anything else, he does not. Currently he carries a CRKT M16 and a SAK.
 
I was a knife nut before I joined the Army. I carried a MT D/A Socom in Iraq.
 
Knife nuts are a minority in the military just like they are in civilian life but a certain percentage always are. I would stay it tends to be a little higher in infantry and Spec Ops units than the rear echelon groups. I know I carried mostly customs during my own time in combat as did maybe 10% of my unit (75th Rangers).
 
Wow! Ranger Bat!

I was a 11C in 1/502. 101st ABN.
 
It's not even just SF that can carry whatever knives they want. Most units don't have much in the way of restrictions on knives, within reason. Samurai swords and double-bladed war axes, probably not, but I've seen a wide variety of knives with soldiers.

The most common one is a Gerber or Leatherman multitool, which in my unit is usually accompanied by a mid- to low-range folder of the sort available in most PXs, i.e. Gerber, Cold Steel, S&W, etc. The next most common knives are Benchmades, mostly autos. I'm odd duck out carrying a Spyderco.

About one in four soldiers in my unit also have some kind of fixed blade knife whose primary purpose is as a secondary weapon, since most of us don't carry M9s. Most of these are low-end, S&W or Cheaper Than Dirt knives retailing for under $35, and of dubious quality and utility.
 
A knife really is non-equipment. Most of the high-speed/low-drag types can take what they like. On those operations, a multi-tool is more useable.
 
HandofCod said:
You know I took a glance at that and first read PARA CORD. I need to get glasses I think. That or stop obsessing about gear.
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That is darn hysterical!...made me day dat did
 
eccvets said:
some times they wont tell cuz they dont know. I can play seal/special forces as well... but I'm not a poser!


I say dont worry about it, you dont have the skill they have so what good is having the same equiptment. As long as the knife you have feels good to you and preforms well for what you use it for, its a great knife. Plus, how often are you gonna need a knife to tatically kill someone?
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The Zombies. Think of the zombies.
 
TAH said:
WHAT? They don't carry a BuckMaster? :eek:

But I've got proof. :D

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I have to tell you that I cringe looking at this photo. The guy in the front has his weapon pointed squarely at his buddy's abdomen. In a rocky boat. Surely it is loaded. That is just plain wrong. I don't understand why this photo was ever released.
 
Halberdier said:
I have to tell you that I cringe looking at this photo. The guy in the front has his weapon pointed squarely at his buddy's abdomen. In a rocky boat. Surely it is loaded. That is just plain wrong. I don't understand why this photo was ever released.
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Looks like an M60 or some sort of medium machine gun to me. Upside down so we're looking at the left side, which is usually where the feed tray is. No box, no belt, no ammo. I'd say its unloaded. Still bad practice tho.
 
^^Actually I think the photo is causing the scene to be flattened out more than it is. The boat is almost certainly wider than it appears... which means the machine gun pointed squarely at his buddy extreme right :D
 
I thought he was talking about the guy on the far right whose hand and rifle are barely in the frame. Seems they're both sitting on the right side of the boat. Anyway in my experience in 7 ton trucks and such it was common practice to put the bipod out on a 240G and set it down, unloaded. It would be pointed at any number of people but its a big ass weapon thats a bitch to carry and control all the time. Nobody thought badly of it in those situations. Of course based on this picture we dont know the whole story.


From what I've seen for the most part people wouldn't move with the weapon loaded. It was more of a crew served weapon. Team leader, gunner, and A-gunner. It's the A-gunners job to carry the tripod, feed the rounds into the feed tray, when the gunner lays it down in a firing position and then unload it afterwords. Then the gunner cleared and carried to the next position. Of course this was a training environment I can't say for sure how it would be deployed in combat or in a "Seal/SOCOM" type unit.
 
"You mean a long Scottish broadsword? Isn't that somewhat heavy and unwieldly?"

That reminded me of Jack Churchill, WWII British commando and no relation to Winston. He carried bow and arrow and a Scottish clayberg on his missions. Once said, "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed."

Pretty interesting character.

http://bit.ly/dvRnQh
 
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