Every soldier needs a utility knife. When I was a GI, the Army commonly issued three blades: a bayonet for Garand or Carbine, the TL-29 lineman's knife, and the metal-scaled "scout" style jackknife with the usual-suspect assortment of can openers.Also issued to those who needed them on duty were an orange-handled automatic version of the "scout" knife, plus blades of the Ka-Bar genre and machetes. The most commonly used blade was the regular blade of the "scout" or TL-29. In other words, a single folding blade was what was really needed. These jackknife-type main blades were less than ideal, but they served.
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