This is the knife I was issued and used every single day in Afghanistan.
http://www.benchmade.com/products/147-148
I don't have many crazy stories but I will share a couple.
The first time I realized how important a good, quality knife can be was on my first drop. Without getting too specific, we rolled out of the base in the middle of the night and drove to a big open field where they had dropped all the supplies for the next 10 weeks. My job, with a few others was to go out and cut all the parachutes off the pallets while the trucks provided a secure perimiter. It was a very memorable night for me, I'll never forget that very eerie feeling of looking out into the dark mountains and having that hair raising feeling of being watched. I was so happy to have that knife, It made slicing through those thick straps seem like a hot knife through butter.
There was another night that it came in handy but essentially caused the demise of my knife.
It was about 0100-0200 and we were up working because a large convoy had come in bringing mission essential gear. I can't remember all the details but somehow all the cables that were on the generator shorted and burned the ends. This generator 100kw, was providing power for the medical tent, as well as the helo pad and a few other things. I had about 2 minutes to get power back to those entities so I ran over, whipped out my knife and cut through (4) 100 amp cables, roughly the diamater of a golf ball each. The knife got the job done but rounded off the serrations. I still take it everywhere, and use the crap out of it. Ill send it back to benchmade one of these days to get sharpened.