Never heard of rite-in-the-rain paper. I'll check it out.

The SEALS got their idea of carrying a pencil from the British SAS. That was always the strategy of the lads in the UK - because a pencil was a better all-weather writing tool. And let's face it, you can always sharpen a pencil.

Nowadays I don't know if that's still true. There could be certain pens that work on damp paper just as well as a pencil.

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