UWK, OSS, ODA -- do this mean anything?

[pyton357ru]

Does anyone knows, what does these Cold Steel's knife names mean something (they sound like abbriviations for me)? Or they are just packs of letters?
Thanks Beforehand!

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Good question. The Microtech UDT comes from Underwater Demolition Team, so I would guess the Cold Steel UWK means UnderWater Knife. OSS was the Office of Strategic Services, the WW II predecessor of the CIA. ODA I can't even guess.

Unfortunately, in the Cold Steel Special Projects catalog, they don't even give a hint about any meaning for the initials.

 

[manowar669]

If I'm not mistaken, ODA is Japanese for "Boss", similar to Oyabun.

 

[Spark]

Close, but not quite. ODA refers to Operational Detachment Alpha, aka "A-team". It's a US Special Forces term.

 

[Don Rac]

UW was said in another place to be an acronym for Unconventional Warfare. Unconventional Warfare Knife maybe?

 

[Esav Benyamin]

That sounds good.

Like a lot of Cold Steel printed materials, these acronyms seem designed more to make the knives sound tough than to tell us anything about their intended use.

 

[pyton357ru]

Thanks!