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I am curious if anyone used a straight while in the military. I actually started carrying a straight razor in my jump boot thinking I might need something to cut my parachute suspension lines. I eventually started shaving with it. When I re enlisted it was confiscated during a shakedown. My next duty station was Germany where I promptly bought another razorAttachment 317513 which I still have.
Great picture! Is it a Dorko? Care to share a current picture of the razor?
I wish that I had started using a straight back then. I carried a Gillette Fat Boy, a couple pucks of Old Spice, and a cheap synthetic on each of my two tours in Vietnam. Your straight looks like a Fritz Bracht Dovo to me.
Me too a fatboy and they never bothered me on that. And my knife was always good enough to cut chute lines, never needed a razor
Thank you guys.
I am glad that I have never had to worry about cutting my chute lines!
Coastie, and currently that is my shaving tool of choice.
This is the same razor I have had for all the years. The only change was the wood scales that I made for it. It is a 1 Pirolo Solingen and I doubt if I paid more than 20 DeutschMarks for it. It is part of my rotation but not the best razor I have.Attachment 317540
Sometimes it’s about how much you value your razor, not the value of your razor.
When I was in the Naval Reserve I used a cart razor and canned goo like most others at that time. If I was doing it today it would be a DE, soap and a brush. I would never consider a straight razor for shipboard use at sea on a destroyer escort. I can be way too rough many a time.
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Thank you for the memories! A very familiar sea state.
Was given a cheap Gillett in boot camp. When I had leave I bought a new Schick. Agreed, no straight razor on a DE.
Two years duty on one, half the time at the Arctic Circle as a plane guard and Distant Early Warning radar picket. Have to admit, not everyday was hell!
Richard
Thanks all for your respective service.
Wouldn’t be where we are without your collective commitments at the various times we needed them.
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For me, it was a Gillette Trac-2 and a can of that foamy shaving cream that got hot (so-so) when sprayed onto your palm. I don't recall knowing anything back then ('71-'76) about DEs or SEs, or straights -- just that I had to shave every day. Thanks for sharing!
PS: After the PLF, yiz was a "leg", like the rest of us :)
I never served. Thank you to all of you guys. My dad was a Deck Seaman on an LST during WWII. Probably could have used a straight on that thing. He used to say they said LST was abbreviation for Long Slow Target. Anyway he was in the Normandy Invasion loading troops on to Higgins boats. A few months later coming back down the Seine River in a line of ships his happened to be the one that hit a mine. He was lucky. He said he was in the head shaving when it happened. The ship rocked up toward him and his head hit the bulwark, split his brow, gave him a gash on the forehead and a broken nose but that was all the injuries he got.
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Purchased a personal hygiene kit for the Great war ..The old english razor and the entire kit
Can not hardly wait till it arrives
If the item on the left is a nail clipper it is the most important item in that kit. We had just one for our entire rifle squad. Nail clippers are priceless for the troops in the field.
I'm a bit newer service member 2006-2012, but I did use a DE for a lot of that time. It was faster/more convenient than a straight, and with my level of skill at the time, much less irritation with daily shaving.
I'm still active duty Coast Guard, 22 fun years and counting. I've been shaving with my Straight Razors for the last few years :)
Active duty Navy. Been shaving with a straight for a decade, although keeping them rust free in maritime environments is a challenge...
Dry well and use VCI paper.
Yes... I also air dry, unless I can't, and then I use a silicone impregnated sleeve.Quote:
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