Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
the mouthpiece spring would just tear any chrome plating on the blade to shreds
We had no scabbards, just those little short ones to keep the colors from catching on the blade point. The rest of the Bn just cleaned their bayonets and left them as was. The worst that happened was the RSM ordering us to spit shine the handles and scabbards with black boot polish like the rifle regts used to for the trooping.