"I was trying to be a impassioned speech about how we were going to take the fight to the enemy," he says. "A reporter from the Washington Post took offense to it and said that I was advocating for troops to go out and commit war crimes" The E-tool is an entrenching tool, used as a non-standard weapon to neutralize the enemy. It's in a military shovel that traditional use is used for digging or latrines but can also be used with other weapons.