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.

A Russian MPL-50 entrenching tool. (Wikimedia Commons) With the Russian military a veritable dumpster fire of a fighting force, it’s no surprise that dismounted soldiers have been stuck with ...

There’s a famous Marine Corps story from the Vietnam War, where a Marine got a confirmed kill with a small collapsible shovel, called an entrenching tool, or E-tool. Here's what really happened.

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.