People joke about—or criticize—knives for being “sharpened prybars”. Wauseon blades come in for more than their share of that trashing. My Dumpster Mutt Combat Grade is a knife that really deserves that label. For a soldier this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A compact blade that really can serve as a prybar, digging tool, chopper, or to chip through a wall and make a firing port is no bad tool to take to the ‘Stans.

What it is not is a delicate slicer suitable for bushcraft use. If I was carrying the DMCG into the hot dry hostile places, I’d look for a good quality slicer and make them a pair. I’d find something like the Busse BAD, and have Jeff make a piggyback sheath that carried them both. You’d have the benefits of your prybar and the slicing capacity of a skinny acute edge in one compact package.