Over the decades, the entrenching tool has served as a lethal weapon for forces. (Department of Defense) When it’s time to kill the enemy, use what you got.

In 1951, Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army 1st Lt. Benjamin F. Wilson found a weapon of last resort in the entrenching tool. His unit had come upon a much larger enemy force in Hwach’on-Myon ...

I killed a few that I could have killed with an entrenching tool, but I never did.” The true events the story is based on occurred between late March and early April of 1972 during Smith’s ...

The MPL-50 entrenching tool used for hand-to-hand combat has been used by generations of Russian soldiers for more than 150 years. Primary Menu Sections US News ...

Troxell carried a shovel during his speech to rile up troops in the fight against ISIS. Sections. ... Surrender terrorists, or face the blunt end of an entrenching tool. ...

Russian soldiers were told to fight with only "firearms and shovels," the Ministry of Defence said; The shovels are believed to be the MPL-50 entrenching tool, designed in1869, said the UK ministry.

The ‘shovels’ are likely entrenching tools being employed for hand-to-hand combat. "The lethality of the standard-issue MPL-50 entrenching tool is particularly mythologised in Russia. Little changed ...

The tool was designed in 1869 and had changed little, ... "The lethality of the standard-issue MPL-50 entrenching tool is particularly mythologised in Russia," the ministry said.