Look at this, now they even make a special bayonet for general officers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWeEDrMVlag
Bayonet training is essential; if one is to become a warrior, one must learn well “the spirit of the bayonet”. It is a comforting accessory, with many uses, an excellent dagger for hand-to-hand combat, and adversaries melt before the aggressive presentation of cold steel. When I was in the Army in “Nam, I told myself that if I ever got stuck by a bayonet, it would be in the ass.