My first knife was an Emerson super CQC7 i used my detassling money from the sumer to get it. But the reason i wanted that specific model was for my 16th birthday my dad let me read the book Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue. The author talked about this custom CQC6 he had and i was curious what knife did this badass carry? So i looked it up and saw the price for a real CQC6 and almost wrote it off as a pipe dream till i read about Emerson's production knives and i wanted one so i saved up over the summer and got it at the end of the summer in 2011. That knife has been my closest companion for 2 years judging soils in FFA to cutting zip ties at the 4-H fair this thing has done it all. It also started my interest / collection in tactical knives. Soon I hope to add an Automatic OTF knife to my collection since they are legal in the great state of Indiana now. But this is my collection thus far starting with the book and the passage that started it all.