Chopsticks??

[Dietrich]

Nice one ALPHA,
This is exactly what Jarndice needed in the Jungle... He must have had a knife anyway.... even a bayonet.... so now he has a fork AND chopsticks for far less weight than just a metal spoon....

[jarndice]

Alb, Hallo, Under my signature I had a knife fork and spoon, a clasp knife, a sykes, (fighting knife) and a Bayonet. but different operations would determine what you took with you, weight is every thing and it is always a compromise. you do not only carry your own requirements but section needs such as Mortar bombs GPMG ammunition (2 belts each) and so on, My mum said " I suppose you have to be very fit jumping out of a plane" I explained that little old ladies could do that complete with a pacemaker, but when you were on the ground you had to carry every thing you needed because the nearest NAAFI (PX) would be many miles away! I learnt a thing or two about knives, early on in Borneo I managed to snap the blade of my sykes and when I got back I" BORROWED " another bayonet and put an edge on both sides using a stone from the cook house, it resembled a roman short sword and whilst I could not throw it with any accuracy it was effective, so what I usually carried was the clasp knife (a multitude of uses some of which precluded against eating with it) "my" bayonet and those chopsticks!!, As to a spoon anyone who has ever been in a rain forest knows that it is full of leaves that make a very useful spoon/cup, What people never tell you about is how quickly issue jungle boots wear out, to put it simply you carried what you needed not what you wanted and a knife fork and spoon were both noisy and excess weight. shaun

[ALPHA]

To me ...this was one of the most handy things you could carry... sure you couldn't really effectively kill a person (unless you knew what you were doing) but for just about anything else.. the perfect tool IMO... had mine for years... lost it during survival training in the desert somewhere

ALPHA

[ALPHA]

Nice one ALPHA,
This is exactly what Jarndice needed in the Jungle... He must have had a knife anyway.... even a bayonet.... so now he has a fork AND chopsticks for far less weight than just a metal spoon....

Alb, Hallo, Under my signature I had a knife fork and spoon, a clasp knife, a sykes, (fighting knife) and a Bayonet. but different operations would determine what you took with you, weight is every thing and it is always a compromise. you do not only carry your own requirements but section needs such as Mortar bombs GPMG ammunition (2 belts each) and so on, My mum said " I suppose you have to be very fit jumping out of a plane" I explained that little old ladies could do that complete with a pacemaker, but when you were on the ground you had to carry every thing you needed because the nearest NAAFI (PX) would be many miles away! I learnt a thing or two about knives, early on in Borneo I managed to snap the blade of my sykes and when I got back I" BORROWED " another bayonet and put an edge on both sides using a stone from the cook house, it resembled a roman short sword and whilst I could not throw it with any accuracy it was effective, so what I usually carried was the clasp knife (a multitude of uses some of which precluded against eating with it) "my" bayonet and those chopsticks!!, As to a spoon anyone who has ever been in a rain forest knows that it is full of leaves that make a very useful spoon/cup, What people never tell you about is how quickly issue jungle boots wear out, to put it simply you carried what you needed not what you wanted and a knife fork and spoon were both noisy and excess weight. shaun

Not sure if that gadget is all that handy in the field... but it is something Diesil and Horses could consider..Shaun carried a lot of EDGED weapons ...
the three thing I always made sure to have was toilet paper... matches... and yes ..at least one blade
Borneo... there's a lot of bamboo there... an Ideal supply of chopsticks


ALPHA

[jarndice]

As I said in my treatise on why I disregarded a Knife, fork and spoon I always carried a clasp knife although not one as elaborately fitted out as a Swiss Army toolbox, the other bladed weapon we always had was of course a Machete, vital for making one's way through secondary jungle and a brilliant and much abused tool in the section but it suffered the same unforgivable weakness of chopsticks, yes it was'nt any better with soup either, as the years pass it is slowly dawning upon me why we did'nt have much soup, we would have starved to death! shaun

[ALPHA]

As I said in my treatise on why I disregarded a Knife, fork and spoon I always carried a clasp knife although not one as elaborately fitted out as a Swiss Army toolbox, the other bladed weapon we always had was of course a Machete, vital for making one's way through secondary jungle and a brilliant and much abused tool in the section but it suffered the same unforgivable weakness of chopsticks, yes it was'nt any better with soup either, as the years pass it is slowly dawning upon me why we did'nt have much soup, we would have starved to death! shaun

I like the Scholarly way you jot things down Shaun... it really paints and interesting and entertaining mental picture

ALPHA