Officers Sabers

[Lawman]

Reason(s) to Get an Officers Saber

1. The Airforce doesnt have them and never will


..... come to think of it, yeah thats enough reasons right there. Let them sit around and sulk in their Bus Driver Blues at how much cooler your uniform is then theirs.

 

[AllAmerican75]

Reason(s) to Get an Officers Saber

1. The Airforce doesnt have them and never will


..... come to think of it, yeah thats enough reasons right there. Let them sit around and sulk in their Bus Driver Blues at how much cooler your uniform is then theirs.

Technically that's not true. They wear them at the USAF Academy. I believe they are only authorized for the formal dress uniform though. The one with the gold sash and the double-breasted jacket. Also, I believe only high-ranking line staff(i.e. Cadet Commander ,Group commander, XO, deputy commander, etc) are allowed to wear them.

 

[gaijin6423]

Since when does the USAF academy count for anything other than bad publicity?

 

[HAL Pilot]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if you have to resort to swordfighting (and just happen to be in your dress uniform), you're having a really, really, really bad day - especially if you're a Sailor.Brett

It was a really really, really bad day as a Candio at AOCS....(here's a blast from the Air Warriors past):

........when we started sword fighting in front of the battalion building as candidate officers during rehearsal for commissioning......

We had the living crap PT'd out of us in the black hole in our brand new Navy twill khakis 3 days before commissioning. I haven't really like swords ever since.

(The black hole was the mud pit created by the waste water around the big air conditioning units between the Batt I & Batt II buildings.)

 

[TheBubba]

Heh... My company and platoon commanders decided to start swordfightin one night during my Plebe Summer... funny stuff. My PC actaully got stabbed in the leg. Nothing a band-aid couldn't fix, but funny none-the-less.

 

[Brett327]

Heh... My company and platoon commanders decided to start swordfightin one night during my Plebe Summer... funny stuff. My PC actaully got stabbed in the leg. Nothing a band-aid couldn't fix, but funny none-the-less.

Seems like a good way to F-up an expensive sword.

Brett

 

[Goober]

If you're willing to shell out 1G for a Wilkinson Sword. Of the three major makers of military swords that I know of, Wilkinson is the best... best blade, most comfortable hilt, and its not made of cheap plastic. Its the heaviest sword, but its a good investment. (My sword is a Wilkinson)

For y'all Marines out there, this is the first year that the Marines has authorized Wilkinson swords.

Like I said... expensive, but worth the investment.


www.wilkinson.com

Yep, no dice. I had intended for nearly a year to order one from them specifically, but they are in fact out of the sword biz. Too bad. Wonder where the Brit military is going to get their swords now...

 

[TheBubba]

Seems like a good way to F-up an expensive sword.

Brett

It was an old Spanish made sword that was issued... They are is such bad condition its a wonder the blade doesnt fall off.

 

[nittany03]

Yep, no dice. I had intended for nearly a year to order one from them specifically, but they are in fact out of the sword biz. Too bad. Wonder where the Brit military is going to get their swords now...

Can't believe it . . . will have to look for someone who knows what they are doing if I ever have problems w/ mine, as now I can't send it back to the manufacturer. Got mine from them specifically because they made a real sharkskin grip, not the plastic crap that everyone uses now (even WKC). Meant to tour the factory if I was ever in Merry Olde England. I guess they make more money selling razors. Too bad.

 

[skidkid]

We got ours from a German company seemed to do good work. I did however ask if I could get a real Ivory handle, my father has some elephant tusks he got while in Africa and I was going to get real Ivory. Apparently that is illegal so I hvae the fake stuff like everyone else who didnt get one passed down to them.

 

[highlyrandom]

geesh, it's not like we can't get ivory from walruses and narwhals, which everyone knows there are millions of.

 

[ea6bflyr]

I went the inexpensive way.....I bought mine off of ebay and then bought a really nice case for it...
ea6bflyr

 

[DocT]

http://cgi.ebay.com/WW1-era-USMC-Of...ameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

Here's a nice one if you want to spend a bit of money.