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Excellence bump.
I just found out by reading some of the letters that the "lives saved" by virtue of a HH-provided knife is now at least FOUR (4) and even that tally was several months ago. It could be more than that especially since the popularity of this program has grown massively in just the last couple of months.
I don't mean to imply that this is some kind of cheap score-keeping device. This is not some "game" but it is the real thing.
I *DO* mean to say that this in NOT merely a chips-and-salsa sort of comfort to our war fighters. Comfort stuff is good and useful, and not to be underestimated. But this program is about putting a tool in the hand of somebody that may well need it in the most desperate of times.
We already know that that this program is not just useful, but life-saving.
If you are somebody that would like to help your soldiers but hasn't yet known how to do it effectively-- THIS is a good way to do it.