"...issue Camillus survival knife snapped..."

No surprise there.

For a while in the '70's the Air Farce had a survival school at Altus AFB, OK. Lots of lectures, hands on stuff, then the E&E part. First you were "captured" by the "VC," pushed around, tossed into a pit full of snakes (they hated it if you just picked up a couple and played with them, instead of going nutso), made to sit cross legged with a pole sticking up between your legs for a while (pain starts within seconds), stuck in a wall locker burned in the ground (it gets hot in those things in OK in the summer), etc. Then, after a couple of days of that fun, comes the E&E part. They let everyone go with a little head start, and had local Native Americans, playing VC come after you. Avoid capture for 24 hours and you are done. Get caught and you get another day in "prison." "This is the real thing gentlmen" the instructors said, then they continued with "do not go beyond that ridgeline, do not go beyond that fence," etc. Yeah, right Sarge. It was discovered that beyond that fence a ways was a little Army installation, tents, generator, refers with food, cots, etc, and NO ONE was home. Nice place to kill 24 hours, then back over the fence and home free. Such fun...