what knife for each branch of service

[butcher_block]

ok we all know marines are known fro the KaBar but what of the other branches
im wanting to make a few dress knives but dont know what style i need to go with

thanks

 

[ashtxsniper]

some of them are carrying knives from ontario like the asek or pilot survival knife, Gerber lmf, and various private purchase pieces. I would say make the knives match the dress uniform of the service it was meant for. Good luck I cant wait to see pics when you finish.

 

[Chris Meyer]

I believe that the squids (Navy) like to carry clam knives, the Army issues butter knives, but the Air Farce can't be trusted with anything sharp!

Sorry guys, I couldn't resist. No actual offense intended.

Semper Fi

 

[butcher_block]

that was more less what i thought too but

i thought there was like an issue knife fro the army like some little airmans knife
im not suer but whatever i use it should be easy to tell that it was for that branch

 

[Hammer27]

The new USMC bayonet is pretty popular. I've seen some SOG knives (mostly the SEAL pup) and newer versions of the KABAR. From what I've heard most folks have trouble getting issued a knife now but please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Airborne Steel]

The only thing I was ever issued 'knife' wise in the Army was my m-7 bayonet.

I had to buy all my field knives.

I have been thinking about doing some military dress knives as well,
(1 Son Active Duty Marine, My younger leaves for Marine Corps boot June 11)
And thought about embedding a small Button from the Dress Blues in each side of the handle and filling the void over the top of it with acraglass (sp?) or acrylic.

I believe the buttons have the EGA on them correct?

If I remember correctly my Army Dress greens had the Army crest on the buttons...

Just a thought at this point, as I don't yet have the skill to do 'dress' knives yet.

 

[jdm61]

I believe that the squids (Navy) like to carry clam knives, the Army issues butter knives, but the Air Farce can't be trusted with anything sharp!

Sorry guys, I couldn't resist. No actual offense intended.

Semper Fi

If you make a dress Ka-Bar for a Marine, don't forget to include the "this end toward enemy" sticker on the pointy part And don't worry.....every deployed platoon has at least one Navy corpsman who can read...lol As for the Air Force, just make sure that the blade is narrow and thin, yet strong enough to pry a bent slug out of the coin slot in the Coke machine.......that is the standard performance test for an Air Force survival/combat knife...lol

 

[Whit]

If I had to pick a knife which represents the Army, I would say the M-3 Trench Knife from WWII. It is by far the coolest knife that was ever actually issued. As far as non-issue knives, the Randalls (I don't know the Model #s) were, and still are quite popular.

 

[DAMNENG]

There isn't any one knife which will cover the many uses for the Navy, but as long as you can use it to pry the cap off a beer bottle it will surfice.

Jim Arbuckle

 

[Celtic Archer]

If you make a dress Ka-Bar for a Marine, don't forget to include the "this end toward enemy" sticker on the pointy part:

That's funny. Although everyone may not get it right off!

 

[docdredd]

yeah i just ets'd from a mech infantry company and we were issued no knives other than our bayonets. all my field stuff was bought
peace
doc silas

 

[jdm61]

Back in the late 70's in the Army, If you couldn't afford a Randall like the guys who were very serious about their blades, you likely carried some type of Gerber fixed blade......Mark 1's and 2's were popular. You could clip the Mark 1 to the shoulder strap of your web gear. You would also see some standard Buck, Browning, etc. hunting knives. The most common knife was the little Army silver metal handled "boy scout" type knife. In the 80's, you probably saw some Al Mars, the ugly Buck "Rambo" looking knives and early SOG's and the like showing up, but not much in regular units. That was what was in the display case at places like Ranger Joe's and in the Cav Store catalog. I never saw any customs other than Randalls and most of those were bought from Cumberland Knife and Gun Works in Fayettenam by SF guys. The Moran and Loveless types and even the Randalls that folks carried in Veitnam had become too pricey and hard to get for the average soldier by the late 70's.

 

[ChainsawMan]

Hey, Chris - No offense taken. Since you're clearly a jarhead, I'm just surprised you can read, let alone use advanced technology, such as a computer.

 

[butcher_block]

Back in the late 70's in the Army, If you couldn't afford a Randall like the guys who were very serious about their blades, you likely carried some type of Gerber fixed blade......Mark 1's and 2's were popular. You could clip the Mark 1 to the shoulder strap of your web gear. You would also see some standard Buck, Browning, etc. hunting knives. The most common knife was the little Army silver metal handled "boy scout" type knife. In the 80's, you probably saw some Al Mars, the ugly Buck "Rambo" looking knives and early SOG's and the like showing up, but not much in regular units. That was what was in the display case at places like Ranger Joe's and in the Cav Store catalog. I never saw any customs other than Randalls and most of those were bought from Cumberland Knife and Gun Works in Fayettenam by SF guys. The Moran and Loveless types and even the Randalls that folks carried in Veitnam had become too pricey and hard to get for the average soldier by the late 70's.

ok so maybe i need to thin this out a little like i was thinking about a randall/sog for the army or even the M7 bayonet and if i remember right the airforce had a little flyboys knife
what im looking for is something that if you saw you would say oo i (had one saw one ) of those back when i was in

perhaps thats jsut not going to happen with any other branch then the corp (not everyone can be a marine)
i was looking to do a set

 

[docdredd]

hey man ill ask my brother(the family fly boy) if they carry anything. he is a bomb loader so probably a multitool.
my grand father was in the navy (working on planes go fig) and he said they carried something called a pilots survival knife? i have no idea what that is though he said it looked like a short KBAR with a clip point and a serrated back

 

[Dogpack]

hey man ill ask my brother(the family fly boy) if they carry anything. he is a bomb loader so probably a multitool.
my grand father was in the navy (working on planes go fig) and he said they carried something called a pilots survival knife? i have no idea what that is though he said it looked like a short KBAR with a clip point and a serrated back

the pilot survival knife is a 5" kabar with a small stone in a piggyback on the sheath. it was the first sheath knife i ever had

 

[Chris Meyer]

Hey, Chris - No offense taken. Since you're clearly a jarhead, I'm just surprised you can read, let alone use advanced technology, such as a computer.

I can't, my 4yr old does it for me.


By the way, when I was in the Marine Corps (1983 -1989) we had to buy our own knives. I carried PAL 36 that I had purchased from the guy I worked for just before I joined. The Marines Corps was (and probably still is) so cheap that we paid for all of our uniforms, haircuts, etc. They deducted the money right from our checks before we even got it. (I started as an E-2 at a whopping $642.90 per month.)

 

[Celtic Archer]

Don't worry, it was the same way 1990-1996 too. No money for anything. ALL the gear was old and worn out and if you needed something you had better go buy it yourself.

We were still running aouround with PRC-77s that had probably actually been in Vietnam while the Army had SYNGARS (spelling?, it's been a while!)and the AF was using state of the art Microwave gear. We could'nt keep comm with anyone outside of the Corps. Then they could'nt figure out why there was so much "friendly" fire!

One of my best firends who is still in now is getting ready to go back to Iraq and he's having to buy body armor to take with him. I don't know if it is supplemental armor or if they're not getting any issued.

 

[jdm61]

lol......i usedthe old PRC77 and we were still using the Prc25(?....the big one youcarried around in the jeep, etc) when I left the Army Reserves in 1990. But our firing battereis had gotten the BCS system.....which, of course was 10-15 year oldcomputer technology when the Army bought it, but, like the PRC77, it was bulletproof. Did anyone else interrupt the general's wife's soap operas with an off color message during training using the PRC77? lol I remember that some trining units treated any knife other than the little folder like they would a personal firearm and made you keep it in the arms room or company safe when you were in garrison.

 

[butcher_block]

knives in the garrison big no no but we were alwatys ing the field anyhow
prick 77 yep still using them till abut 97-98 i think that was my first com grear


o and yes we also had to buy all our stuff too like the yearly uniform pay when to anything other then beer not that (200 goes far when getting new camies)

ok back to knives looks like were getting some place thanks fro the help and keep it comming