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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Perhaps you are mistaken. The Y Knife (the serialized version) was announced and offered for sale to anyone who would fill out the application and pay for it for over two years. You could even mail or fax the application in.
I believe lack of interest and extra work required to verify the applications caused the sale of them to come to an end. Then everyone who had not done anything up to that point to obtain one decided they wanted one.
Not sure what you mean by "pre-qualified". Everyone I know had to fill out the paperwork and wait to be verified, just like everyone else.
TR
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I fell of the SF radar for a while due to personal issues - thus missed the 'announcement'. I was late to learn of the offer - no excuse, no rancor, just dissapointment that manufacturing runs could not be increased as demand dictated - I wouldn't mind waiting, as long as there was availability - they are going to have to be made over time, to meet the needs of graduating soldiers.
"prequalified" was used to mean those who had been through the Q prior to the issuance of the Y.
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