Posted on Mar 16, 2017
173: Etool, Standard Issue Entrenching Tool - Cigars and Sea Stories
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Your position has been over ran. Taking stock, you realize the E-tool is probably your best option for a weapon. So how are you going to handle it? - 90 degree for chopping or straight for slashing?
173: Etool, Standard Issue Entrenching Tool - Cigars and Sea Stories
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I was taught 90 degree in 1969......but it seems to me that if you are being over run, and the best option you have left to fight with is an Etool........I don't think it's gonna matter much whether it's straight or bent......you are in a world of potty chairs. I remember thinking another training technique that wouldn't really matter either......in bayonet fighting, we were instructed that if the bayonet stuck in a bone, you should fire off a round as you pull it out to help release it from the bone. I'm thinking.....if I still have a round in my rifle, there ain't gonna be a bayonet fight!
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SSgt Gary Andrews I agree with you. I also remember being told to fire a round to help unstick a bayonet. I would only resort to my Etool when I ran out of ammunition for my M16 and .45. and anything else at hand. As a Radio Operator, I would be calling in for support before we ended up in that situation, if the radio was still functioning.
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never used one to dig a fighting Position... but dug a couple M-151s an M-718s out of Mud Holes and Snow Banks...
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well if that is all that I have left, I must be out of rounds, and my bayonet broke, so wtf, swing away with the straight because that extra few inches might matter. If that stinking thing breaks then I am down to my web belt as a choking weapon until the enemy lets go of whatever he has.
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