Around here the two go hand in hand. Because the truth is, a Gerber isn't a Gerber until it's got a few (or a few hundred) stories under its belt.
I received my Gerber multi-tool as a Christmas present in 2000. Every day without fail, I find myself using it at least 2 or 3 times, but often up in the double digits. It has been on my hip just about every day. Including my tour of Iraq in 2003. During a convoy in the beginning of the war our vehicle broke down. It was a black out convoy and the vehicle behind us, went around leaving my driver and I stranded. When the sun came up the next morning we got the vehicle moving again using nothing but “luxury” parts and my multi-tool. We joined with another group of Marines and traveled to a rendevous point where we discovered that we had lost every gear but drive. A simple linkage had broke connecting the transmission to the selector. Again, with my trustee Gerber and extra pieces we were able to get our other gears working.
There were a couple of other instances in which our vehicle or another one broke and I was able to fix it using my Gerber. The best way I can phrase it is: "Being a one legged man in an ass kicking contest, my Gerber was my crutch."
Greg Van Dine
