Old friend returns home.

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I'd like to know how an NVA officer got the Randal in the first place. I wonder what his wait time was.
 
Rey HRH said:
I'd like to know how an NVA officer got the Randal in the first place.
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Maybe Mad Dog Shriver left the Randall knife in the sternum of one of the NVA's friends and the NVA liberated it upon finding the guy who'd kicked this mortal coil:o
 
Ass2sin said:
Reacquired an old Randall that was presented to me by a 4th. Inf. Div. LRRP that he took off a NVA officer that he wacked on Ho Chi Minh Trail. Feel real lucky to have gotten it back. I know the dude didn't want to part with it.
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slishe, is that you back again?
 
If and when this pans out, its too bad if the blades been cleaned up and coated.

In general, no old knife with history should suffer getting coated. A crying shame when one encounters these.

I also see this on old sabres and vintage bayos - someone picked up either and thought it would look good nickel plated over the fireplace (shudder!)
 
I'm not really sure what the point of this thread is since there's so little Info or pictures, but it would be cool if it's true.
( FYI the ho Chi Minh trail is probably the most well known place from the Vietnam War )
I'm not calling bs on the op, but with the lack of info or pics combined with what I know. I currently can't say that I feel 100% about the whole thing.
 
Experimentalist said:
Here is a pic of a Randall Model 14 Attack. It is a Model 14, not the one in question though.

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Now scratch the living poop out of both sides, take a small round file and cut a 64th. inch slot on the left side of the shank, just above the Randall logo,and you'll have a pretty good idea of what it looked like when it was given to me.
Now keep in mind this had been taken off an NVA officer. Did the officer place the file mark on the weapon, or did the original owner place the mark there? I'll never know, but I'm sure Randall never sold that knife to a commie, pinko, toilet licking, son of a witch!
 
LadyEarth said:
Um...Let me see if I understand this right.

Ass2sin lost the Randall knife to some NVA officer. A "4th Inf. Div. LRRP" killed the NVA officer and knew who the owner was and returned it back to Ass2sin even tho he was tempted to keep it for himself?

That is ... one odd situation, to say the least.
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Negative! The friend (the knife) came back to me, after I had traded it off, many years after my second tour in 1968.
 
I served as an Army Aviator, Warrant Officer. with "A & B" Companies, of the 4th. Avn. Bn. 4th. Inf. Div. in 1967-1968. I was tasked, as flt. leader of a heavy gunship team and a 2 slick recovery element, with recovering one of our LRRP teams that was in heavy contact on the H.C.M trail. As a result of our actions, the LRRP Capt. gave me the knife. My call sign was Gambler 3!!!!
End of story!!!
 
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Ass2sin said:
Negative! The friend (the knife) came back to me, after I had traded it off, many years after my second tour in 1968.
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Awesome! Thank you for clearing it up.

I would love to see a picture of your knife and see how much "history" it has on the blade and handle and everything knifey. After all, we're on a forum where we want to drool over every sharp metal objects. :p
 
LadyEarth said:
Awesome! Thank you for clearing it up.

I would love to see a picture of your knife and see how much "history" it has on the blade and handle and everything knifey. After all, we're on a forum where we want to drool over every sharp metal objects. :p
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Like I've said before, I don't know how to do that computer machine stuff. I don't own a camera. Look at the picture that the "experimentalist" posted and picture it as having a blackened blade, a non shiny hilt and a bead blasted/dull grip. I parkerized it in an attempt to not think about it's sad history. Time, they say, has a way of blotting out bad memories and I thought a face lift would also help. Such is not the case. On a happier note, however, the mission saved a a number of good lives. Everyone got back safely and a bunch of commies died. My acft. did have a number of holes in it though.
 
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Ass2sin said:
Like I've said before, I don't know how to do that computer machine stuff. I don't own a camera. Look at the picture that the "experimentalist" posted and picture it as having a blackened blade, a non shiny hilt and a bead blasted/dull grip. I parkerized it in an attempt to not think about it's sad history. Time, they say, has a way of blotting out bad memories and I thought a face lift would also help. Such is not the case. On a happier note, however, the mission saved a a number of good lives. Everyone got back safely and a bunch of commies died. My acft. did have a number of holes in it though.
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I know how it is not being able to post pictures, I was almost ran off of a forum because I couldn't post pictures and people couldn't except the technical reasons why I couldn't make it happen.
( I pretty much knew how, but my cheap computer wouldn't cooperate )
They also couldn't except that there could be a 21yr old that's not a technology wiz, thinking that I just wouldn't post pictures because I was lying.
Sometimes we wish that people could just picture things, but people on forums will always demand photographic evidence.
You can't even tell people what you ate for dinner last night without anyone demanding proof.
 
Hickory n steel said:
people on forums will always demand photographic evidence.
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Well, at the very least forum members will ask for pics.

Especially when some stories are more difficult to accept than others and in light of the basement dwelling troglodyte teen couch ninjas who like an infestation likes to hit and run this very form with tall tales exactly in the vein of this one (no offence and IMO the jury is still out on the OP. More power to him if true). An example could be some teen dishing out tall war stories and claiming to be a Scout Sniper - a fantasy grasped out of thin air and with not a shred of basis in the real world. Apropos nothing at all of course.

Examples are legion - one claiming to have vast experience 'in the desert' hinting of being a font of real world knowledge about him taking down bad guys for the government...., when in reality the desert happened to be closer at home across the border down south and the guy a some sort of customs official.

Anyway, pics are the lubricant which makes this forum ho round. How disappointing to see an interesting heading about a great knife only to find an OP with no pics.

An internet fan forum without pics is squandering the interweb IMO.

Without pics we might as well be standing on hills using semaphore.

Would be more fun than this forum with no pics and semaphore aint even that much fun to begin with.

I for one look forward to a potential pic of the knife in question. Maybe the OP knows a tech savy youngster, who'll help posting a pic of the knife.
 
Ass2sin said:
What's a "host"? What's a "photobucket"? I'm a real ma roon when it comes to this computer machine stuff!!!!
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Naaa, don't pull that card. You learn. If an old white bearded senior citizen like me who was techno-phobic can learn, anyone can. You learned to get on a computer and find this place and register to join. So you must have an email account. And you say you were a pilot. Then I know you can learn because the Cessna 150 I took my flying lessons in was way more complicated than having the guy at the Apple store show me how to get my pics on a hosting site like photo bucket or other and post here.

If this ground pounding combat engineer enlisted man can do it, you can.

See, it's easy once you bother to learn;
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Old fart who learned to overcome fear of computer and other techno stuff;
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Gratuitous knife pic;
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Now, lets see that Randall!

By the way, I was in the 39th Combat Engineer battalion, Vietnam 1968-69. Where where you?
 
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Ass2sin said:
I served as an Army Aviator, Warrant Officer. with "A & B" Companies, of the 4th. Avn. Bn. 4th. Inf. Div. in 1967-1968. I was tasked, as flt. leader of a heavy gunship team and a 2 slick recovery element, with recovering one of our LRRP teams that was in heavy contact on the H.C.M trail. As a result of our actions, the LRRP Capt. gave me the knife. My call sign was Gambler 3!!!!
End of story!!!
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jackknife said:
And you say you were a pilot. Then I know you can learn because the Cessna 150 I took my flying lessons in was way more complicated than having the guy at the Apple store show my how to get my pics on a hosting sit like photo bucket or other and post here.

If this ground pounding combat engineer enlisted man can do it, you can.

By the way, I was in the 39th Combat Engineer battalion, Vietnam 1968-69. Where where you?
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Indeed. In general we have seen these claims before "I flew/fly an airplane but cant figure out how to post a pic." Its wearing a bit thin......, or Im getting cynical.
If Im wrong, I of course take it back.

Id still like to see a pic of the knife - coated or not.
 
Ass2sin said:
Like I've said before, I don't know how to do that computer machine stuff. I don't own a camera. Look at the picture that the "experimentalist" posted and picture it as having a blackened blade, a non shiny hilt and a bead blasted/dull grip. I parkerized it in an attempt to not think about it's sad history. Time, they say, has a way of blotting out bad memories and I thought a face lift would also help. Such is not the case. On a happier note, however, the mission saved a a number of good lives. Everyone got back safely and a bunch of commies died. My acft. did have a number of holes in it though.
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Actually as a history buff and Randall fan, Im intrigued.

As Ive learned, it was not uncommon for the opposing forces to take knives and/or equipment as trophies.

I and others are keen to see a pic of the Randall some how.

My above posts were not so much coined on you as it was an expression of annoyance with the legions of trolls storming the ramparts of this forum.

But if you dont mind me asking; who became 'Gambler 3' after you left the position?

Which airplanes did you fly and what were the aircraft numbers, please?
 
BladeScout said:
Well, at the very least forum members will ask for pics.

Especially when some stories are more difficult to accept than others and in light of the basement dwelling troglodyte teen couch ninjas who like an infestation likes to hit and run this very form with tall tales exactly in the vein of this one (no offence and IMO the jury is still out on the OP. More power to him if true). An example could be some teen dishing out tall war stories and claiming to be a Scout Sniper - a fantasy grasped out of thin air and with not a shred of basis in the real world. Apropos nothing at all of course.

Examples are legion - one claiming to have vast experience 'in the desert' hinting of being a font of real world knowledge about him taking down bad guys for the government...., when in reality the desert happened to be closer at home across the border down south and the guy a some sort of customs official.

Anyway, pics are the lubricant which makes this forum ho round. How disappointing to see an interesting heading about a great knife only to find an OP with no pics.

An internet fan forum without pics is squandering the interweb IMO.

Without pics we might as well be standing on hills using semaphore.

Would be more fun than this forum with no pics and semaphore aint even that much fun to begin with.

I for one look forward to a potential pic of the knife in question. Maybe the OP knows a tech savy youngster, who'll help posting a pic of the knife.
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I hope he gets the message that he has to figure out how to post pictures, because if not he's not gonna have a very good time around here. If he refuses to learn how to post pictures nobody is gonna believe anything he says.
BTW I wasn't saying that there's anything wrong with demanding pictures, just trying to convey that they are necessary.
 
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