I used to carry a leatherman wave with me all the time, that was before I got a job were having a multi-tool on the belt was not well recieved. Before the leatherman I carried a gerber. While I was on active duty I used it all the time to tighten screws on my personnal gear, cut wire, cut 550 cord and other items of field craft. I could have used several tools to do the same job but it would have required me to carry more than one knife. Once I became company armorer, my leatherman was my go to tool. I fixed all sorts of weapons, actually next to my leatherman the most used tool i had was my hammer. When i deployed to Iraq, I drove a humvee, dang near from one end of Iraq to the other. I did several repairs using my leatherman, even when i had other tools. it was just much faster to whip out my leatherman do what I had to do and jump back in. I broke the tips off my pliers trying to connect a slave cable (jumper cable), twisted a scewdriver bit to the point where it pretty much was useless, but then i had a few other screwdrivers on the tool I could use in replace of it. I cut flex cuffs, MRE's and even pinched the skin on my hand in the backside of the plier (that was a come to Jesus moment). When I am going out in the woods I am never far from my leatherman wave. If I could get a pocket clip for it, it would be riding in my pocket everyday.