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Are you like me and just can't wait until you get it to show off your latest acquisition? Feel free to post the seller's pictures here. You can post your own pictures later in one of the various threads dedicated to new acquisitions (for example: "Mail Call ! Post your new pickups here....." , "Mail Call Post your new GECs", etc, etc)

Supposed to have been here yesterday but USPS tracking still shows it as leaving OPA LOCKA, FL is this Camillus USMC MIL-K utility knife. I've wanted one for a long time and finally found one I could afford. Now if the USPS just doesn't lose it............
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I'm trying to complete my collection of the Kershaw 1001 Two Can scissors knife. There are four varieties of them and I have two, polished stainless (maybe aluminum) handles and red anodized aluminum handles. I just found one with blue anodized handles so all I need to complete the set is one with black anodized handles. This one is coming from Gawguh and tracking shows it left Hotlanta last night.
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...jerry, I still have my Camillus military knife I was issued in 1958 at ft. Belvoir, va., it's one of my treasures!!!........... ::tu::.........
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Nice knives Jerry! I have a couple of those Mil-k's. Mine just say U.S. Very cool. Those Two Cans are cool! How well do they work? Being Kershaws I can imagine that perform their duty's very well.

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Randy, they're Kershaw so of course they're Kershaw Sharp (which has become my definition for "hurt ya sharp"). They're a very nice little key ring knife which doubles as a very handy pair of scissors. It's my opinion that the scissors work better than those in a Vic.
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carrmillus wrote:...jerry, I still have my Camillus military knife I was issued in 1958 at ft. Belvoir, va., it's one of my treasures!!!........... ::tu::.........
That's pretty awesome
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You guys should know a Marine will buy just about anything that has the Marine Corps Emblem plastered on it or USMC engraved or printed on it. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I like that MIL-K utility knife Jerry, been wanting one myself. Here is a pic from the pocket knife book you sent me. You can take the description for what it's worth. It's still a K-neat K-nife.
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jerryd6818 wrote:You guys should know a Marine will buy just about anything that has the Marine Corps Emblem plastered on it or USMC engraved or printed on it. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I just ordered a shirt with USMC on it. ::tu::
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SteelMyHeart85420 wrote:
carrmillus wrote:...jerry, I still have my Camillus military knife I was issued in 1958 at ft. Belvoir, va., it's one of my treasures!!!........... ::tu::.........
That's pretty awesome
..when I was turning in my equipment when I got discharged in 1961, that knife wasn't on the list, and when I showed it to the sgt. , he said keep it, so I did!!!.....now i'ts one of my treasures!!!.... ::tu:: ..............
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I'm hoping that should be SHIRT Dale. ::ds::
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bighomer wrote:I'm hoping that should be SHIRT Dale. ::ds::
You are pretty quick Homer.
I corrected that within 60 seconds of posting it and noticing that I could not spell shirt correctly! ::facepalm::
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We all do it bro. ::tu::
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LOL Dale. Glad I didn't have to get on you for your "grammar".
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::rotflol:: ::rotflol::

Dale can't spell for shirt!

Are you going to be getting on us now Phil for saying someone doesn't know "shirt". :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ban me now brother. I don't think I'll be able to leave this one alone. ::rotflol:: ::clapping::
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Can't ban JerryD, who else is going to fix our YouTube links?? ::nod::
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Those last two over on the Bluegrass thread were unfixable, or at least I couldn't figure them out.
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:mrgreen: Bad grammer, bad spelling, I still love this site! I was wondering how Carmillus got to keep his knife , when I got out of the Army in 1966, all I got to keep was my fatigues, class A uniform, and my DD214, no bayonets, M14's, entrenching tools , or mess kits ::ds:: TERRY
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I hear ya Terry. I too got out in 1966 (September) and all I kept was my sea bag (and contents of course). They patted us down pretty good on Okinawa before they would allow us to continue on to CONUS.


Anyone besides me have any knives enroute??

The post office is trying to drive me insane (yeah, yeah, I know. Short trip.) This one was supposed to be here last Thursday.
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terryl308 wrote::mrgreen: Bad grammer, bad spelling, I still love this site! I was wondering how Carmillus got to keep his knife , when I got out of the Army in 1966, all I got to keep was my fatigues, class A uniform, and my DD214, no bayonets, M14's, entrenching tools , or mess kits ::ds:: TERRY
.......I have several friends who got discharged about the same time that had the military knives, and they had to turn them in,too........never known anyone else who got to keep thier's???......... ::shrug:: ......................
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I was allowed to keep my TL-29 that was issued to me.
I was never asked to turn it in, I thought they were issued to us as personal property. It was an issue that never came up.

Though one possible explanation of why it didn't come up was that I came home on a medevac flight and went to the US Naval Hospital at Oak Knoll (Oakland, CA). I don't even recall going through customs when I cam e back to the US. ::shrug::

What I do Remember-
I remember flying on a medevac flight into Travis AFB (I think it was Travis) and several of us who were ambulatory were allowed to go through the chow line at the base hospital (I think). We walked through the chow line with a huge metal tray and the mess man asked if I wanted eggs. I said, "Sure," and held out my tray. He looked at me like I was stupid and asked, "Fried, scrambled or poached?"
Never having been asked this before in a Marine Corps chow line, and not seeing any eggs in the steam tray in front of him I was thoroughly befuddled, I stammered, “Fried.” He gave me that your-an-idiot-look once again and ask, “over easy, over hard, or sunny side up?” ::uc::
That was the third question in a row just for some eggs and I didn’t even have them yet! I said “sunny side up.”
Then I had to stand there while he cooked them for me. That was kind of cool to have hot eggs in the chow line for breakfast! Them Air Force boys know how to live! ::super_happy::
But, it turns out we hadn’t seen anything yet. After loading my tray with sunny side up eggs, two styles of potatoes, (I did pass on the grits), bacon, ham and sausage I reached the end of the chow line, to the very last mess man, and the very last inquisition before I could actually eat. “Would you like some toast?” “Yes please.” “What kind; white, whole-wheat, sourdough or rye?” (Are you freaking kidding me? Who has rye bread toast for breakfast? Apparently the Air Force!). ::dang::

I finally managed to squeak out a weak answer, as my brain was reeling from all of the questions and of course lack of nutrition. “White,” I managed to the small voice. Then what happened next absolutely defied logic, he handed me two uncooked, pasty white pieces of white bread. Seeing such undercooked toast kind of aroused the Marine in me, I said, “What the…” My comment was cut short when he pointed to the toasters on the next table. I put two pieces of white bread in the toaster, (it was a very fast toaster), and a few seconds later out came two pieces of perfectly toasted white toast! I reached for the butter next to the toaster and spread some on my toast.
Wonder of wonders! Miracles beyond all comprehension! Something happened that I no longer thought was even possible, the rich yellow butter MELTED, ACTUALLY MELTED into the toast! ::ds::

I don’t think I had actually seen butter melt on toast since I had been a civilian. In the Marine Corps, at least in the Old Corps, our toast was always served to us from a pan in the steam tray, and usually a steam tray that was not been turned on. We had several options on our toast in the Old Corps; cold, soggy, stale, moldy, slightly warm, but never HOT! Not once in my 3 years, 9 months and 13 days did I ever eat toast in a Marine Corps mess hall that was hot enough to melt warm butter!
There we were, four medevac-ies standing at these very fast oversized Air Force toasters watching butter melt on hot toast! The mess man finally just handed us a loaf of bread and got out of our way. Well, he was nice enough to take our trays to the table for us, since we were gimpy and crippled and couldn’t lift all the eggs, potatoes, ham, sausage bacon and hot toast with melted butter that we had piled on each of our trays. ::nod::
I think that was the most memorable event upon my landing back in CONUS. ::hmm::

I have no recollection of going through Customs, nor even where my TL-29 was when I was medevaced.
As I recall we were medevac in pajamas, I don’t think I had my jungle utilities on. My TL-29 may have come in with my seabag, a week or so after I made it to Oak Knoll.

Obviously the only thing I had on my mind was hot food! ::facepalm::
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orvet wrote:I have no recollection of going through Customs,
Well la-de-da. Ain't you somthin' with your butter melting hot toast and eggs the way you want them. I recall getting eggs to order (uh, sort of) or at least off the grill on weekends at Cherry Point or maybe the cook was cooking them on the grill and flipping them into a steam table pan. Maybe at other bases but Cherry Point is the only one I semi-recall.

Now at Ft. Bliss, the Army base at El Paso Texas. That's another whole kettle of fish.

You don't recall going through customs? I'll bet you don't recall going through customs on the way over either. Because we never went through customs. Ever! When we landed in Spain for Operation Steel Pike, when we landed in the Canary Islands and went on liberty in Las Palmas nor when we returned to the States. We also didn't go through customs on Okinawa on the way to Viet Nam or once we landed at Da Nang. No customs when we landed in Taipei Taiwan for R&R, Okinawa on the way back from Viet Nam nor at MCAS El Toro when we got back to the land of the big PX. We also never had a passport because military troop movements don't need no stinkin' passports nor do they do the stinkin' customs dance.

We need to talk to someone who was on Embassy Duty and see how that was handled because I doubt they made a mass movement when they reported for duty in some foreign land.
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orvet wrote:I was allowed to keep my TL-29 that was issued to me.
I was never asked to turn it in, I thought they were issued to us as personal property. It was an issue that never came up.

Though one possible explanation of why it didn't come up was that I came home on a medevac flight and went to the US Naval Hospital at Oak Knoll (Oakland, CA). I don't even recall going through customs when I cam e back to the US. ::shrug::

What I do Remember-
I remember flying on a medevac flight into Travis AFB (I think it was Travis) and several of us who were ambulatory were allowed to go through the chow line at the base hospital (I think). We walked through the chow line with a huge metal tray and the mess man asked if I wanted eggs. I said, "Sure," and held out my tray. He looked at me like I was stupid and asked, "Fried, scrambled or poached?"
Never having been asked this before in a Marine Corps chow line, and not seeing any eggs in the steam tray in front of him I was thoroughly befuddled, I stammered, “Fried.” He gave me that your-an-idiot-look once again and ask, “over easy, over hard, or sunny side up?” ::uc::
That was the third question in a row just for some eggs and I didn’t even have them yet! I said “sunny side up.”
Then I had to stand there while he cooked them for me. That was kind of cool to have hot eggs in the chow line for breakfast! Them Air Force boys know how to live! ::super_happy::
But, it turns out we hadn’t seen anything yet. After loading my tray with sunny side up eggs, two styles of potatoes, (I did pass on the grits), bacon, ham and sausage I reached the end of the chow line, to the very last mess man, and the very last inquisition before I could actually eat. “Would you like some toast?” “Yes please.” “What kind; white, whole-wheat, sourdough or rye?” (Are you freaking kidding me? Who has rye bread toast for breakfast? Apparently the Air Force!). ::dang::

I finally managed to squeak out a weak answer, as my brain was reeling from all of the questions and of course lack of nutrition. “White,” I managed to the small voice. Then what happened next absolutely defied logic, he handed me two uncooked, pasty white pieces of white bread. Seeing such undercooked toast kind of aroused the Marine in me, I said, “What the…” My comment was cut short when he pointed to the toasters on the next table. I put two pieces of white bread in the toaster, (it was a very fast toaster), and a few seconds later out came two pieces of perfectly toasted white toast! I reached for the butter next to the toaster and spread some on my toast.
Wonder of wonders! Miracles beyond all comprehension! Something happened that I no longer thought was even possible, the rich yellow butter MELTED, ACTUALLY MELTED into the toast! ::ds::

I don’t think I had actually seen butter melt on toast since I had been a civilian. In the Marine Corps, at least in the Old Corps, our toast was always served to us from a pan in the steam tray, and usually a steam tray that was not been turned on. We had several options on our toast in the Old Corps; cold, soggy, stale, moldy, slightly warm, but never HOT! Not once in my 3 years, 9 months and 13 days did I ever eat toast in a Marine Corps mess hall that was hot enough to melt warm butter!
There we were, four medevac-ies standing at these very fast oversized Air Force toasters watching butter melt on hot toast! The mess man finally just handed us a loaf of bread and got out of our way. Well, he was nice enough to take our trays to the table for us, since we were gimpy and crippled and couldn’t lift all the eggs, potatoes, ham, sausage bacon and hot toast with melted butter that we had piled on each of our trays. ::nod::
I think that was the most memorable event upon my landing back in CONUS. ::hmm::

I have no recollection of going through Customs, nor even where my TL-29 was when I was medevaced.
As I recall we were medevac in pajamas, I don’t think I had my jungle utilities on. My TL-29 may have come in with my seabag, a week or so after I made it to Oak Knoll.

Obviously the only thing I had on my mind was hot food! ::facepalm::
And may God bless you for going thru all that for me. ::pray::

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.........does anyone have one of the all metal military knives that is date stamped earlier than 1958??.......seems like i read on one of the forums somewhere that 1958 was the earliest date stamp???................ ::shrug:: ............................
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jerryd6818 wrote:You don't recall going through customs? I'll bet you don't recall going through customs on the way over either. Because we never went through customs. Ever!

We need to talk to someone who was on Embassy Duty and see how that was handled because I doubt they made a mass movement when they reported for duty in some foreign land.
As you know Jerry I was in the 1st Marine Air Wing and being in the Air Wing we were all stationed in Japan and sent TAD in country. That way we were not counted in the troop count in the war theater.
I actually did go through customs when I went back from Nam Phong to Japan. They ran us through customs somewhere up around Tokyo probably either Tachikawa AFB or Yokota AFB.

They set us on the tarmac in an area fenced off by chain-link until they could run us through customs. I had purchased a small handsewn pillow that I used to sleep with in country. It was stuffed with something like kapok or some other local material. The MP who was running us through customs saw that pillow and his eyes lit up like he was going to get promoted. He grabbed my pillow and ran over to the drug sniffing dogs and was gone for about five minutes. He came back with a disgusted look on his face and through the pillow to me: the pillow that was now soaked in dog slobber but obviously contained no drugs!

I thought that was Customs, as that is what they called it, but now I’m not sure if that was an official US Customs or just the military not wanting any drugs on the bases in Japan. But they did have an official US Customs amnesty box for anyone who wanted to surrender their contraband items without fear of prosecution. ::shrug::
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Nah, that wasn't customs. Customs is run by the country you are entering. What you went through was the Military's system to check for contraband; weapons, pornography, drugs, etc. We went through the same square dance when we hit Okinawa. They formed us up on a basketball court out behind the barracks and we stood there until past midnight while they went through our gear looking for contraband. What a pain. When we landed at MCAS El Toro, we went straight to the barracks, grabbed a rack and stowed our gear. It was 1000 on a Friday, two hours before we left Okinawa at 1200 on Friday. That International Dateline, what a hoot.
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