Knifeless Ex-Seal?

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I just read a good story about US Representative Derrick Van Orden, a retired Navy Seal, witnessing a nasty auto accident on the highway somewhere in Iowa.
He stopped immediately to assist with any injured occupants of the destroyed van.
Turns out one of the occupants was a severely injured 10-year old boy bleeding profusely from an arm and leg. The arm had arterial bleeding, which would have been fatal within a very few minutes. A large part of the muscle on the back of the leg was almost completely separated from the bone.
Thinking fast, Van Orden retrieved a couple of socks from a a bad in his car, and used them for tourniquets on the damaged limbs. As he continued to deal with the kid's injuries he realized the needed to improvise additional bandage material, and asked the gathering crowd if "anyone had a knife"? Someone from the crowd offered him his knife.
The boy lived to make it to the hospital and will recover.
I have to ask- "What Navy Seal , active duty or retired, does not have some kind of knife on his person at all times?".
In the area where I live, in the SW MO Ozarks, almost all adult males over the age of 30 or so carry a pocket knife of some sort, ex-military/law-enforcement or not. I carry two, a Swiss Army knife and a Benchmade lock blade 365 days a year. A gun too, but that is another story.
The Good Samaritan is free to make his own choices on this sort of thing, of course.
It just struck me as a little odd.
 
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I would imagine that going in & out of government buildings and dealing with screenings constantly on a daily basis would prompt him to forgo carrying. Probably not his preferred choice but a matter of convenience due to circumstances.
 
I would imagine that going in & out of government buildings and dealing with screenings constantly on a daily basis would prompt him to forgo carrying. Probably not his preferred choice but a matter of convenience due to circumstances.
That occurred to me, but I don't know if he had been or was going to be screened anywhere that day.
 
Ummmmmm.......hmmmmm.....not carrying a knife when entering government buildings could be a problem for anyone, but not carrying a knife of some kind in his car seems a little unusual and unprepared for a SEAL.

BUT!!!!

Benefit of the doubt for a shipmate - he was trying to save this kid's life, he couldn't go back to his car to retrieve his knife. That's the story I'm going with! :cool:
 
Well, I have never been a SEAL, nor do I know any personally, so I may not be qualified to comment.

But, I would say the kind of SEAL that doesn't carry a knife would be the kind that would stop and save a kids life after an accident.

It would also be the kind of SEAL who is a SEAL Apparently.

But like I said I am not sure I am qualified to pass judgement.
 
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