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Smatchet
My then current girlfriend bought me an Al Mar smatchet when my team was setting up security at the Zakho House in N. Iraq in 1992. I hated bothe shealth and the handle so I "fixed" them. The shealth was constructed by a friend in El Paso and I did the handle out of white oak in the MWR wood shop. You may notice the handle has a strong resemblance to the WWII German daggers. This was not intentional but because of the increased size for the smatchet it is actucally very confortable for my hand. I carried this "knife" for the last years of my career and was quite happy with it.
One story that goes with the knife; When my team returned from doing the B-H CSAR mission we were immediately put into an exercise so we could get back to our real mission: training.... Anyway, we had a new CSM, famous for the comment "you guys are fat and out of shape and thats why so many people are hurt on jumps" who after saying this promptly broke his leg on a fun jump with the Germans. During the exercise he was out of the cast so he came out to watch a live-fire. Noticing my knife he came up to me and asked "is your knife big enough?" Not realizing his sensitivities were different than mine I asked " Didn't they tell you about me?" He replied "No". I then said "Oh, I have a little d**k". He hardly spoke to me for the next year!!!
MVP
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