Benchmade Infidel – Merry Christmas You Heathens

The Infidel is an “out the front” opening blade that requires about a ¾ inch thumb push to both compress and release its springs and deploy the blade making this weapon as safe as it is “F’ing” killer. Corpsman up! As a Corpsman (Navy Medic), I’ve seen many lacerations caused by one’s personal knife, and […]

SOG Powerplay Multi-Tool: Review

Our readers know that The Loadout Room writers are big fans of SOG Specialty Knives & Tools. We’re constantly using their knives, tomahawks and multi-tools in the field and reviewing their products. Many of us have carried their equipment while serving in the military as well. I was one of the few that had not. […]

SOG Quake Folding Knife | Review

Plowing through a sea of folding knives there lies great difficulty in finding new innovative designs. After all, several manufacturers have been creating reliable, well designed assisted-opening knives for years. And what’s not broken, needs not fixing, right? Well, SOG decided to look into new mechanisms and methods for opening an assisted knife and gave birth […]

A Navy SEALs Folding Knife: Benchmade D2 Griptilian

A lot of people say that there is no such thing as “the best knife”. Well I disagree.  Everybody has their own opinion on what they think is the best blade.  Now let’s talk about folding blades (the choices are endless).  During my time in the military I was lucky enough to try many different […]

SERE Survival: Basics of sharpening your cutting tools in the field

“Ops are pushed 1 hour, remain on station.” My PRC-152 spit this information out matter-of-factly as wind and freezing rain pelted me and my crew of Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) members on the top of a mountain. These TACP’s were going through a Combat Survival and Evasion course and I was their instructor. They […]

Brussels police officers stabbed in suspected terrorist attack

Two police officers were stabbed in a suspected terrorist attack while in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels, Belgium. One police officer was stabbed in the neck and the other police officer was stabbed in the abdomen. A third officer broke his nose.  The Independent states that the attacker fled after stabbing the officers and was stopped by a second […]

Navy SEAL Kills Pirate with a Knife

I recently attended a shooting course taught by a former Navy SEAL. A small portion of that course covered some basic combatives (7 yards and in). When you’re 7 yards or closer to the bad guy you are considered to be within combatives range. Within this close distance things happen fast, really fast. You may […]

These Badass Knives Are Made from an A-10 Warthog’s GAU-8 Avenger Cannon

The Warthog A-10 is a badass plane, about that there can be no doubt. And at the heart of that badass plane is the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon, a massive gun the plane itself is essentially built around. But after thousands and thousands of shots, the barrels of a GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon wear out. When they do, Shane […]