Osama Bin Laden Kill Team Use Hatchets from ‘Last of the Mohicans’ Knife-Maker

Members of SEAL Team 6 received blades made by Daniel Winkler for breaching, getting into doors, manipulating small locks and hand-to-hand combat

SEAL Team 6, best known for killing Osama bin Laden in 2011, used hatchets made by Daniel Winkler, a North Carolina knife maker who forged blades for the 1992 movie “The Last Mohicans” starring Daniel Dey-Lewis, according to the The New York Times.

The articleย titled, “The Secret History of SEAL Team 6: Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines,” claims that “during one period, members of Team 6’s Red Squadron — its logo shows crossed tomahawks below the face of a Native American warrior — received a Winkler hatchet after their first year in the squadron.”

In an interview, Winkler refused to sayย which SEAL units had received his tomahawks, but acknowledgedย that many were paid for by private donors.

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