Thanks again for all the advice. I'm going to take the stuff I already got and some goodies the great gentleman Esav Benyamin is sending out to me.
My father taught me when I was real young shooting his .25 Raven that you only use a pistol to get to your rifle or shotgun. I apply it the same for everything, hands to a blade, blade to a rifle, etc. Last ditch scenario, that I would hate against an Iraqi with nothing to lose, I've done martial arts from 5-16....18-21 years old and do know how to scratch someone with a knife and kill them with hands, elbows, and/or boots.
But it's not a dojo, and it's not even a good ole' American street or bar fight...you have to treat the person as a target of deadly force over there if you sense the tiniest bit of aggression or sense the immediacy of threat. There's no contium of force, no less than lethal tactics.
I'm a crazy knife nut like everyone else on here, and get called paranoid for all the weapons I keep all over wherever it is I call home, and I drive the 90 mph on a highway.....but I have no problems admitting that I'm
scared of having to use any knife over there. Hopefully that's what could save me if a convoy security op goes bad over there or they breach the perimeter of the munitions dump.

for having a week left in our great country...