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I was just a zoomie, so all of my travel outside the wire was in an airplane, but I was issued a Benchmade like this and it worked like a champ. - Hacker15E
We too, were issued the Benchmade autos, great knives. I already had the Emerson shown in my post, so I didn't take it. Good decision - I would have lost it!!! Group I went with were embedded trainers (ETT/MTT Team). Because of my civilian police background, I was split from that group in Kandahar and embedded with the Afghan National Police. Never saw the team I left the states with again until we de-mobed at FT Riley. Coming back through Kuwait, Customs was taking the autos unless you had a memo stating they were organizational equipment. Glad now I left it at home.
US Customs were pretty descent, they took what they were told too. We went through screening by the Brits at Kandahar... totally different story. One of the Canadian RCMP Officers I worked with had a Kabar confiscated out of his checked baggage because they said he could not have been issued a "Marine knife"??? He gave in and let them take it to avoid missing his flight.