Believe it or not, I have a pretty good idea of what a knife carried in the field in Vietnam looks like.
As do I
But I also know many Randalls were “carried” in a duffle bag, or spent their tour hanging on a "for emergency" web-belt in an office on a support base … but they too were still "carried" in Vietnam (just not in "the field").
We are in agreement then, and this Astro is one of those that spent the majority of time in a duffle bag or desk drawer.
I am only pointing this out because if this gentleman humped this thing on his web gear for four years, it would look substantially different than it does, but you already know that as you so clearly avowed you
"have a pretty good idea of what a knife carried in the field in Vietnam looks like". But I don’t usually just post fact-less or thoughtless opinions.
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I suggest you reread the obit I took the trouble to search and post... perhaps it will help someone understand the condition of the knife. By the way... he was not a pilot...but if he had been... well ... do you know the casualty rate among pilots in Vietnam?
Don't need to reread it, thanks. Yes, I do know the casualty rate of pilots of different duty and branch of service in Viet Nam, but I am unclear what that has to do with the condition of this Astro. To help me understand, perhaps you could expound on the correlation between the two.
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