33 Gifts for the Military Man

An article from Havok Journal. Most of these will work well for military women too, though they may want different work clothes.

I do prefer a slightly longer pocket knife than the one he recommends, but it depends on your branch of service. The USAF won't allow you to bring a pocket knife longer than 3" on base, as I recall. I usually carry one of these, which has a too-long-for-the-Air-Force blade length of 3.99". It's strong, keeps an edge well, has a serrated portion for those kind of cutting jobs, and opens easily with one hand.

6 comments:

raven said...

The USAF won't allow you to bring a pocket knife longer than 3" on base"
Our ancestors are either howling with laughter, or spinning.

Cassandra said...

The USAF won't allow you to bring a pocket knife longer than 3" on base, as I recall. I usually carry one of these, which has a too-long-for-the-Air-Force blade length of 3.99".

My snark detector is going off, big time :p

douglas said...

That looks like a nice knife, Grim- may have to get one.

I'd love to hear what everyone here has as EDC (Every day carry), in the blade department. Should be interesting.

For a few years now, I've been carrying a Gerber Paraframe I, and have been pretty happy with it. It's only a 3" blade, but they do make a 3.5" blade version, and a tanto version. It's been easy to keep clean, smooth, easy to open and close, and has never slipped out of the locked position. It's not too hard on my pockets either, even though the thumb stud is below the top of the pocket clip. I'm actually on my second, as I once rushed to a hockey game and forgot to take my knife out of my pocket first, and had to give it up as I was holding up a group of people I was meeting there.

So, what are you all carrying?

Grim said...

I've already told you mine, but the one I carried before that was the full-sized version of this knife. (The mini version is even OK for the Air Force!) I find the longer blade a little more useful, and like the nascent quillions on the CRKT knife, but I had absolutely great service out of this blade as well.

Anonymous said...

Swiss Army basic (one blade, two tools) and a really nice CRKT Ayan that would make the school bosses very unhappy if they found it. And a "combat pen" tucked away, mostly for going to Europe and other places where dedicated pokey-and-stabby tools are verboten.

LittleRed1

douglas said...

Like the combat pen thing. Think I'm going to need to get one of those, as there are many buildings/venues around here where I wouldn't be allowed my pocket knife.