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Good morning, everyone! Well, I'm off on my ride. I've no idea if I'll make it back for even part of the chat-view, but I will try!

Hope everyone has a great Saturday...have fun tonight if I don't make it back in time!

Good morning! Have fun!

I'm up and will be setting off on a much smaller ride of my own in a few minutes here. Hope we see ya tonight!

Got another email this morning. At first I thought it was another Bandit (I don't know if we adopted them or they adopted us). Then I looked again at the APO, and it's from a completely different unit. Not only did he see one of our knives, but he wrote directly to my email address. That means he saw the knife's cover letter, too, since I put my personal email address on it. I'm both proud and humbled that our troops think so much of our modest efforts.

Here's the complete email exchange, minus the usual redactions.

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A few quick answers to your questions.

1. You deserve a knife like this because your raised your right hand and swore to defend America.

2. The Hobbit Hole will mail you one as soon as I can get to the post office.

3. The US government has bought 30,000 of them, and it has a NSN. Camillus sells these knives to us for the same price they sell to the government. The price is VERY good.

4. We have no idea if the taxpayer's BK2s get into the hands of the troops. My suspicion is that they will sit in a warehouse for 30 years, and then be sold as surplus.

Thank you for your service to America. Please accept our humble knife with our gratitude. Rick

Shane L. wrote:

To whom it may concern,

One of the Squad Leaders in my Platoon received one of your knifes in the mail today. Probably the best knife that I have ever seen. His name is SSG Dan F., I don't know how he was able to get this knife, neither does he for sure, but it was the Camillus / Becker Knife and tool BK 2 "Campanion". He was given a letter stating that it was a special knife that was only given out to the front line troops in battle.

I must agree that it is a very special knife! A remarkable knife if I may say so myself. I want to know what I need to do to obtain one of these incredible knife's myself. In 1999 to 2000, I served in Kosovo, immediately after 9/11 I served in Afghanistan, both with the nnn Infantry Regiment out of the [redacted]. 52 days from my return from Afghanistan, I redeployed to OIF I with the [redacted] Division, and am currently in OIF III with the same unit. I can think of numerous uses for a outstanding knife of this caliber.

How much does it cost, how soon can I get one, and most importantly, why have you not submitted this wonderful knife to the U.S. Military to replace the old and out dated bayonet?

This is such a well balanced perfect gripped knife. What a terrific product!

SFC Shane M. L.

3rd PLT PSG

Bco 3/xIN Reg, y BDE