The Buck/Strider isd definitly worth buying. I also wear mine in uniform.
I recently returned from the Combat Manuever Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany where I used my Buck/Strider every day for such things as prying open ammo crates, cutting burlap for camoflage, opening MRE's, to cutting tangled trip wire from a recovered booby trap. The knife performed beyond any other folder I own, including the Emerson CQC7 and my Spyderco Endura. While I own many high quality folding knives this is the one I choose for serious work.
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