I was giving him a (deserved) hard time, JFTFOI. I get the feeling he hasn't kept up with the latest fads in CQB hand tools; e.g. the 'hawks, adaptive breaching tools, and various over-sized choppers that are currently supplementing the guys' firearms load-out down range. Almost all of it is positively medieval. Some of it makes battle axes and war hammers look tame. 
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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