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#STRIDER KNIVES SAN MARCOS SERIAL#
Military issued knives began with an "M" in the serial number, whereas the civilian counterpart was preceded by a "C" in the serial number. The initial run of this model consisted of 300 knives.150 for the men in the unit and 150 similarly marked knives for collectors whose purchase offset the cost of the knives for the military.There are several small differences between the military and civilian versions of this knife. In addition, the Military version bears the insignia of the Marine Raiders. The MARSOC SMF knife is marked with the date of the Marine unit's activation (030620 or 20 June 2003) as well as "DET-1" on the frame. Instead they chose Strider's SMF folding knife as their issued blade. When DET-1 was formed and their equipment being chosen, they decided not to use the traditional Marine Ka-Bar nor did they go with a dagger design as the Marine Raiders had been issued 60 years previously. That knife was called the United States Marine Raider Stiletto and was issued to Marine Raiders until the unit was disbanded in 1944. Shuey and produced by the Camillus Cutlery Company of Camillus, New York. The last time the Marine Corps issued a knife to an individual unit was in 1942, when a variation of the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife was redesigned by Lieutenant Colonel Clifford H. The handle is composed of a fire anodized titanium frame, oil impregnated bronze bushings, an oversized pivot screw 0.19 in (0.48 cm) in diameter, and a textured G10 glass-reinforced plastic scale with an incorporated backspacer.The National Stock Number (NSN) for the SMF knife is 1095-0. The SMF knife is manufactured by Strider Knives of San Marcos, California.The knife features a 4 in (10 cm) drop point flat ground tiger striped blade of CPM S30V steel. The Strider SMF was the first knife issued to an individual Marine Corps unit in over 60 years and the first tactical folder issued within the USMC. The Strider MARSOC SMF is a framelock folding knife that was specifically developed for Detachment 1, the first SOCOM unit of the United States Marine Corps.
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