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An entrenching tool (UK),[1][2] intrenching tool (US),[3][4][5] E-tool, or trenching tool is a digging tool used by military forces for a variety of military purposes. Survivalists, campers, hikers, and other outdoors groups have found it to be indispensable in field use. Modern entrenching tools are usually collapsible and made using steel, aluminum, or other light metals.
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- ^ Defence Clothing & Textiles Agency, 90 Pattern (Infantry) Equipment Fitting Instructions, U.K.: Ministry of Defence, 1997, p. 15
- ^ Rottman, Gordon L., Vietnam War U.S. & Allied Combat Equipments, Oxford, U.K.: Osprey Publishing, Ltd., 2017, p. 38
- ^ "Headquarters, Department of the Army, FM 21-15 Care and Use of Individual Clothing and Equipment, Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1985, pp. 5-2 - 5-3" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
- ^ U.S. Army SGM Academy, Warrior Leader Course (Modified), Army School System, 2005, p. 11-15