User blog comment:A Lonely Nomad/(OFFICIAL) The balancing issues Treyarch are taking against noob tubes/@comment-71.75.225.19-20100913214548/@comment-28584497-20100913220951

My god, what is so hard for you people to understand? These guys weren't frontline soldiers, they were Special Operations operatives, which means that they were the masters of unconventional warfare. And, YEAH, people use crossbows, ballistic knives (only spetsnaz), and tomahawks. Matter of fact, some modern soldiers carry Tomahawks.