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0 pointslazide3y ago0 comments

Unless someone is specifically naming the military standard they are compliant with (and provides an auditing record!) it’s bullshit, 99.99% of the time.

Legit vendors who sell actual mil-spec equipment (except stuff that has known shitty mil-specs like entrenching tools) don’t use ‘military grade’ anywhere when they’re selling to the military. They go through procurement and identify the specific mil-spec’s they are compliant with.

Military grade is the weasel word way of implying they have done that without being able to be sued because they aren’t.

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HWR_143y ago

Fair enough. The words mean nothing while implying exactly what I thought but not saying it, and I was one of the fools who fell for it. Although I won't after today. Thank you.

lazideOP3y ago

You’re welcome. If you find something like this elsewhere, please post it too.

I consider it part of the war against Bullshit, which never ends.

Also, ‘industrial grade’, ‘heavy duty’, ‘as seen on TV’ (that one is thankfully almost dead), celebrity endorsements, and the trend in tools over the last decade of buying out an aging brand with a great market reputation and ‘capturing brand value’ by selling cheaply made versions until no one can find anything fit for purpose anymore.

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