POCKET Knife recommendations for a victimized Military man

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Knivesforapro

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Hello all,

As is obvious, I am new to this forum, and I look forward to becoming consistently better educated and become a productive member of the bf community. I apologize if any of my posts seem asinine, I just try to make informed decisions and you guys/gals are a wonderful resource for intelligent, informed, opinions.

On that note, one of my family's closest friends is heading back overseas after re-upping. Sadly, someone broke into his home, and stole his knife/gun collection. He is shipping out soon, and now has literally two knives left, the two he had on him: a Delica 4 and a Street Bowie. I come from a military family, and am currently a college student, whose enlisting afterwards. As such, I am both appalled that some low life pos would steal from a man with 3 combat tours of duty, and a Purple Heart. He gave so much, and some a*****e decided to steal from him. My family has pledged to look after his wife and young daughter while he is overseas, but now he is faced with yet another problem: he doesn't have a proper pocket knife for military use. I am doing some manual labor this weekend to earn a $300.00 budget to try and get him the best knife possible to ride in his pocket into war. I was curious what you guys would suggest?

Respectfully,
A fired-up and concerned citizen.

Ps: as far as I'm concerned, if you want to steal from a service member, active or retired, try it when they're home, dirtbag. See what happens.
 
Knivesforapro said:
Hello all,

As is obvious, I am new to this forum, and I look forward to becoming consistently better educated and become a productive member of the bf community. I apologize if any of my posts seem asinine, I just try to make informed decisions and you guys/gals are a wonderful resource for intelligent, informed, opinions.

On that note, one of my family's closest friends is heading back overseas after re-upping. Sadly, someone broke into his home, and stole his knife/gun collection. He is shipping out soon, and now has literally two knives left, the two he had on him: a Delica 4 and a Street Bowie. I come from a military family, and am currently a college student, whose enlisting afterwards. As such, I am both appalled that some low life pos would steal from a man with 3 combat tours of duty, and a Purple Heart. He gave so much, and some a*****e decided to steal from him. My family has pledged to look after his wife and young daughter while he is overseas, but now he is faced with yet another problem: he doesn't have a proper pocket knife for military use. I am doing some manual labor this weekend to earn a $300.00 budget to try and get him the best knife possible to ride in his pocket into war. I was curious what you guys would suggest?

Respectfully,
A fired-up and concerned citizen.

Ps: as far as I'm concerned, if you want to steal from a service member, active or retired, try it when they're home, dirtbag. See what happens.
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Actually I think the Delica would be quite serviceable.

Having said that, the Ontario RAT-1 folder is a great choice. Decent steel that sharpens easily, in an affordable $30 package. There are a couple of videos from a military man who took it overseas on at least one (and I think more) tours of duty and although it got beat up of course, it held up to his use excellently. I would recommend it. He can probably even a few of these plus a few others, at that price point.

I would also recommend:

Cold Steel Large Voyager $60 great lock, long, wide clip point blade. Robust construction.
Benchmade 275 Adamas Great D2 Steel and built like a tank. Almost like a literal tank.
 
I agree including some kind of good sharpening system is a good idea. Perhaps even just a good DMT stone that requires no set up would be a good option.

By the way sorry to hear about the break-in, I know that sucks.
 
I love your passion for wanting to help someone. Busting your butt to buy someone a new blade so the are better prepare is very admirable and I applaud you.
 
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jimh0220 said:
I love your passion for wanting to help someone. Busting your butt to buy someone a new blade so the are better prepare is very admirable and I applaud you.
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You may want to try to get some verification of this situation first. 11 posts doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. A lot of folks getting burned by low post counters lately.

If this is legitimate, I wish him the best of luck. I donate time and money to our warfighters in multiple areas, so I'm good to go.

To respond to the question posted, I would recommend a multi-tool honestly. There are countless threads on this board started by family members wanting to send their loved one in the sandbox a new knife, and there are always multiple active duty (or retired) service members who respond with that recommendation. This guy doesn't need a $300 knife that will get stolen from his personal belongings while he sleeps. He needs a multi-tool that he'll actually use.
 
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To echo what quiet said, get him a multi-tool. My suggestion would be a Wave, a CS Recon 1, and a sharpening stone.
 
I would say the Delica will be a very useful knife. He may want to have two or three as things get "lost" quite a bit in the military.
 
Also let me repeat the Delica is a great knife which he already has. I think adding a Multitool and a good sharpening stone will have him prepped for pretty much anything. But again, throw in a couple RAT-1s at that price too.
 
marcinek said:
Or you are the weird internet stranger who sent a knife to a 12 year old kid.
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That was funny? I must have been out of the loop on the 12yo knife thing.
marcinek, nice to see you always contribute your signature hate, bitterness, and garbage to anything remotely kind. Don't you have a kitten to strangle or some kid's lunch money to steal?

FYI, handling things with op offline, not because of you, btw.
 
jimh0220 said:
That was funny? I must have been out of the loop on the 12yo knife thing.
marcinek, nice to see you always contribute your signature hate, bitterness, and garbage to anything remotely kind. Don't you have a kitten to strangle or some kid's lunch money to steal?

FYI, handling things with op offline, not because of you, btw.
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I know you weren't responding to me but, I hope you were not offended by my seeing the humor in that. It had (from my end anyway) nothing to do with you or your wanting to help a person in need, which is of course admirable. I hope if you find out anything regarding the legitimacy of the story, you'll be kind enough to let us know.
 
RedLynx said:
I wish I could say a drink didn't come out of my nose when I read that. It would be nice to be able to say that.
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Hey..exactly that kinda stuff has almost happened here before, not too long ago. Just a public service to those who may have missed it.

jimh...you want to send some mystery person a knife? You go right ahead.
 
marcinek said:
Hey..exactly that kinda stuff has almost happened here before, not too long ago. Just a public service to those who may have missed it.

jimh...you want to send some mystery person a knife? You go right ahead.
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Whoa the knife stranger thing? That was a real thing? Whoa. I thought you were just making a joke, guess I am also out of the loop more than I thought.
 
RedLynx said:
Whoa the knife stranger thing? That was a real thing? Whoa. I thought you were just making a joke, guess I am also out of the loop more than I thought.
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No! Somebody came around asking for stuff, and it was almost given to him. Turned out he was a kid doing the same thing all over the internet.
 
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