Perhaps no piece of equipment is so anachronistic on the battlefield as the bayonet. Mention fixing bayonets and you think of Gettysburg and the battle of Little Round Top, with Joshua Chamberlin and the 20th Maine executing a right hand wheel formation… well, OK, that is what I think of, anyway.Bayonets are seldom used anymore in actual conflict, with war being a much more hands off sort of business these days. The Marines, however, are always a very hands on group, so I was tickled to see their latest version of the bayonet.

This is a very different sort of knife than the more traditional dagger we saw on the M7 bayonet, which was just a redesign of the M6 left over from WWII. I like the modified Bowie design. If you are going to go to the trouble to carry something used as seldom as a bayonet, it had better serve double duty as a utility knife; the OKC-3S fits the bill perfectly.

I think I want one to go with my Ka-Bar, upon whose design the new bayonet is obviously based.