A recent Task & Purpose article mentions the “trusty” e-tool among various “vet-tested” gear items for peacetime hiking. Without making too much of a casual gear recommendation, it is ...

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 ...

Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWWS) 272 use an entrenching tool while conducting expeditionary airfield maintenance training near Dateland, Ariz., March 21, 2018. (Marine Corps/Lance ...