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- Points
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I have never seen any pictures in any branch of the media that depicted cadets with knives, helmets, combats and other soldier like things. The ONLY pictures I have seen in the media of any cadet in any of the branches are young good mannered children selling poppies in FULL DRESS UNIFORM. Whether or not the cadets are allowed to have kabar knives or helmets is entirely up to the CO. I highly doubt that a cadet would injure himself with a knife so horribly that it would be depicted on the news. Most cadets have a little bit of common sense, to not run with a knife and stab themselves or buddy. In my corps if an officer saw you playing around with a knife and endangering buddy, you'd be in the truck getting RTU'd faster than you can say "yes sir" and you would probably have a stripe ripped off your brassard and the cadets are made FULLY aware of this fact. Cadets wear combats because we are allowed too. They are perfect for the field and are practical. If there was a persistan problem with this then they would not issue it at CSTCs or in some cases at the LHQ. Cadets wear big huge brassards that say C-A-D-E-T for a reason on their combat uniforms.