Vietnam Era Camillus Air Force Survival Knife with Unknown Scabbard

[Aragorn243]

I got my hunting sheath out and put it in it. It looks good. I can buy a new sheath for my hunting knife. It's a steel tipped one but I've carried it in the woods for 30 years and it has deer blood and fat soaked in it so it looks authentically used. It was authentically used, just not in wartime although I believe I took it but didn't wear it during Desert Storm. My dad has one I bought him about the same time I bought mine and he ruined the knife by putting it in a grinder. It's only about half the size it should be now. Might get that one off him instead.

[Aragorn243]

Here are the two of them together. Mine is an Ontario from 86. Bought it new at the AAFES uniform shop at Ft Indiantown Gap PA in '86, the year after I was commissioned in the US Army as a 2nd Lt.

Can't really stomach the idea of separating the sheath.

[browningautorifle]

Don't separate them then. Look around and I'll bet you can find a used salty scabbard as you need. Not even your dad's although that's an option too.

[BEAR]

In the 80s the Jumpmaster course at Benning and Bragg started issuing the graduates this knife so it would be part of their jumpmaster kit. Unfortunately, I graduated from JM course in the mid 70s, so I had to buy mine. "whine.....whine"
Here is a picture of a jumpmaster on an OV10. Notice the knife on his left shin. Scabbard has been blackened..........most of us did this.

[Aragorn243]

I found another beat up knife in an early scabbard. Hopefully it will clean up, both the knife and the scabbard. Appears the knife is either a 67 or an 87, can't tell because of the rust but the scabbard is the very early all leather type. Can't tell who made the knife either. It's marked on both the blade and the handle.

[Aragorn243]

Second knife with sheath arrived about an hour ago. I think it will clean up OK. It is a Camillus 1967. I have the worst of the rust scraped off and it is sitting with some oil soaking at present. It is not marked on the blade. I was seeing things in the rust.

I need to head to Walmart and get some new wire toothbrushes.

[browningautorifle]

Leather on the handle's good, too bad they let the steel fur up with rust.

[Aragorn243]

Cleaned up pretty well.

[browningautorifle]

Yup, not bad at all.

[RAM1ALASKA]

That cleaned up really good ,,,,
Job Well Done,,,,,
A shame it was in the shape it was, when you got it!