Ben:  We may bore the hell out of everybody else, but you & me got this thread while you got screen time, so what the hell.
I know what you mean.  I'm driving a '92 Range Rover I bought new for a ridiculous amount of money, but it does not seem so  ridiculous now, 14 years later come September.  It has done more for me than I could possibly have expected.  Keep the 'burb running, if it's a good 'un.
Re:  Carbon V:  Some say it is just 1095.  I don't think so.  I am fond of SRKs myself; i've had two, which I have given away to folks in circumstance which demanded them more than mine - they are over there with you.  Good blades.  Too thick for civilization, but that's the point, right? 
PM me your APO parcel data, please, with any peculiar restrictions your CO/unit has.
RJ