Original U.S. Cold War Presentation Machete Engraved to SSG Ronald G. Deleon, 408th Army Security Agency Company - Attached to 8th Special Forces Group in Panama - Dated 1978 Replica Non-Firing Pistols & Rifles and Alkmaar is the name

and Alkmaar is the name of a Dutch Fourth Rate ship of the line

this was the first EM collar disc

which would be placed down the bore of the rifle and is not present

more than likely denoting 6 months of service

They are hard to come by

Original U.S. Cold War Presentation Machete Engraved to SSG Ronald G. Deleon, 408th Army Security Agency Company - Attached to 8th Special Forces Group in Panama - Dated 1978 Replica Non-Firing Pistols & Rifles and Alkmaar is the nameOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The United States Army Security Agency (ASA) was the United States Army's signals intelligence branch from 1945 to 1987. It was essentially the precursor to the NSA (National Security Agency). Although most ASA units focused upon SIGINT (signals intelligence) most if not all ASA units contained HUMINT (human intelligence) specialists as well, mostly interrogators and counter intelligence specialists. This is a phenomenal