As a Senior Administrator on an internet wristwatch forum [BDWF] - I responded to an appeal from one of our military members who requested to ours and other forums at the end of 2009 to gift wrist watches to the 7th SF Group and the 96th Civil Affairs Group out of Fort Bragg, NC. SF has rapdly expanded to meet worldwide demands and young soldiers need to do other things with their small salaries other than to purchase wrist watches.

Since I owned this watch model since 1994 and a prececessor model since 1989 - replacing 2 wrist straps and 3 batteries - it was easy to purchase/gift this along with another Casio Model to 'any Special Ops soldier' who needed one. As a retired soldier - I know first hand how rough field duty is on wrist watches - and this Casio met and exceeded any expectations I could ever have taking a wristwatch to the field.

Looking to the back of my watch box of over 50 timepieces I still treasure my Casio DW6600. Even after retiring out in 1996 - the watch has served me well in field duty as an Army contract employee for many years until being replaced by more expensive timepieces as my work environment became less demanding.

The bezel face has worn almost smooth - the printing of various function almost unreadable (Casio has offered to reface the watch - but I enjoy it as a piece of my past military history).

As the light was someting I needed to shield at night - and worried about sunlight glinting off the watch crystal in daylight - I wore this watch on a canvas strap with a velcro flap over the watchface - which somewhat protected it from wear and shielded accidendental light emissions at night.

It remains watertight (seals having been replaced - almost as expensive as a new purchase with a battery change) and constant use of the light will wear down the battery faster than you'd want - but I went 3-5 years between changes.

Not solar powered and NOT atomic timed - (as that is useless in most places our soldiers deploy to) it was a perfect gift to an unknown soldier going in harms way. May this watch see a SF soldier through his current assignment and safe return.

A watch that can be taken into harms way without worry.