

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 US Marines 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 original knives designed for the Marines' SOCOM unit in 2003 do not include this feature, but subsequent versions do. The lockbar stabilizer is a metal disc contained in the titanium lockbar which is designed to preserve the life of the framelock by preventing overtravel and flex. The latest version of this knife (generation 2 and above) includes the Hinderer Lockbar Stabilizer, a mechanism designed by custom knifemaker Rick Hinderer and licensed for use by Strider. (2005)"Duel of the Titans: two exceptional folders exemplify state-of-the-art","Guns Magazine", June 2005.] The National Stock Number ( NSN) for the SMF knife is 1095-0. The handle is composed of a fire anodized titanium frame, oil impregnated bronze bushings, an oversized pivot screw 0.19" in diameter, and a textured G10 glass-reinforced plastic scale with an incorporated backspacer. Larsen, John A.(2003)"Strider Marine Special Ops Folder", "Tactical Knives Magazine", September ] The knife features a 4" drop point flat ground tiger striped blade of CPM S30V steel. The SMF knife is manufactured by Strider Knives of San Marcos, California. 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.

Sheath_type= Cordura Pouch or Pocket Clip Variants= MARSOC Numbered Version, Civilian Numbered Version, Unmarked Version, NSN Knife Wars= War on Terror, Operation Iraqi Freedom Caption= "Numbered Civilian Version (C0060) of the Strider MARSOC SMF"
