Part of the neatsy-keen survival vests they gave us in Laos was a knife pictured below. These were manufactured by the Camillus Cutlery Co. and were indestructible. We also had flourescent orange locator beacons with a strobe light on them which was as dumb as tracers. I recall a signal mirror to attract the attention of pilots and some other useless stuff. A silk map with translations of “I’m your BFF”. I kept my knife and pistol on my belt where it would travel with me. I hung my vest over my seat out of the way. The battery in the locator  was almost always dead anyway so that was a farce. I don’t recall any FACs being saved by one.

Due to large amounts of spare time, we used the small whetstones included to turn these things into razor blades. I found a case of these leftovers from WW2 at the Air Operations Center at Wattay Airport (L-08) in Vientiane one day waiting for a klong flight up to 20 Alternate. I bagged about a half dozen and gave them to friends.

Compass, non-liquid. Model L-1, AF Procurement No. 459601. Don’t leave base and take off without it.