posted on Nov, 21 2010 @ 08:38 AM
Most of the members on ATS are too young to know about the old John Wayne P38
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What is it many of you are asking right now...Well it's a can opener, a screw driver, perfect tool for field striping the old M14, great toenail and
finger picker, I recon if you lost your guitar pick you could use it for that too!
Officially it is without a doubt
The Best Army Invention Ever
Wiki says
The P-38, developed in 1942,[1] is a small can opener issued in the canned field rations of the United States Armed Forces from World War II to the
1980s. Originally designed for and distributed in the K-ration, it was later included in the C-ration.
P39
Personally I have carried mine for almost 40 years now (same one I first took out of a case of C RATS) and I never stop finding uses for it... my
advice... if you don't have one get one, hell get twenty, their cheap and give them to all your friends as X-mas gifts