Military issue auto knife

[colonial knife corp]

M-724 once called the MC-1 is still being used by the N.A.T.O. forces through out the world.
any stories regarding the use of the M-724 in combat?
Thank,
Steve P.
Colonial knife corp.com

[RobesonsRme.com]

I belong to an internet group of both former and currently active United States Army Special Forces soldiers.
Many of these men were, or are, career airborne soldiers and have served in various U.S. Army airborne units other than Special Forces.
Not one of these gentlemen have ever been issued one of these knives.
However, they did relate having seen them in the Rigger Sheds, being used by the riggers to cut cord during the parachute packing procedure.
The knives, apparently, have never made it into the hands of airborne infantry or Spec Ops soldiers.
Actually, the process for extricating oneself from a parachute entanglement with trees does not necessarily involve the cutting of anything. The trick is to disconnect one snap on the reserve 'chute, pop the reserve and let it dangle down toward the ground, release yourself from the main harness and shimmie down the reserve to the ground. If the reserve does not reach the ground, one can release one riser from the reserve pack, which would effectively double the length of the deployed reserve. If you still aren't on the ground, you're on your own. Just drop and do as good a Parachute Landing Fall as possible.
Personally, having landed in tall trees, I would think the hooked blade should be the one that's spring loaded, not the clip.

I like that Swat knife!

Charlie Noyes

[knife7knut]

I was in the Navy from 1964 to late 1967 and managed to acquire two of those;one by Schrade and the other by Camillus.They were in fact standard equipment for pilots in our outfit(the All Services Evaluation Group in Patuxent River MD).I remember becoming friendly with one of the PR's(Parachute Riggers)in order to obtain mine.I think the cost on them at the time was around $3.20 each and you would have thought they were made of gold the way they guarded them.

I still own one of them(traded the other off for something)and they are typical of the 50's era inexpensive switchblades in that the blade is slow and sometimes fails to completely deploy.I agree with Charlie:I would have thought the hook would have been spring loaded.