When, if at all, has a modern first world military unit been commanded to 'fix bayonets' in a post Vietnam/post Soviet Afghan combat operation?

by ChampagneKnight

I noticed a bayonet lug on my M4 and thought to myself...

NoAstronomer

It's not post Soviet-Afghan, but it is post Vietnam.

During the 1982 Falklands War records indicate that British forces did fix bayonets during at least two actions that I can find sources for. Firstly, The Falkands War by Martin Middlebrook notes bayonet use at the Battle of Mount Longdon.

From Corporal Ian Bailey 3rd Parachute Regiment:

For some reason, most of them fixed bayonets; I put mine in and looked around to find all the others were putting theirs on too.

From Colour-Sergeant Brian Faulkner, 3rd Parachute Regiment:

Some of the Argie wounded had been wounded by phosphorous grenades - severe, deep, burn wounds, very painful. They screamed, were very upset. One or two had bayonet wounds - very unusual in a modern battle - and some were even physically mauled, literally from hand-to-to hand fighting with rifle butts or anything that had come to hand.

Also Wikipedia mentions bayonet use during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown and following the sources there you can find the citation for the Military Cross awarded to (then) Major John Kiszely:

he killed two enemy with his rifle and a third with his bayonet.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/49134/supplement/12847

Searocksandtrees

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Thanks all!