General Murray was stationed in Fort McCabe. In October, 1951, SRPA engineers at the fort began tweaking a portable saw that was used in conversion center rescue operations to fire blades at high velocity. After a highly destructive competition resulting in the loss of an army jeep, General Murray refrained from court-martialing the participants and put them to work on a military application for the tool, in which it became the V7 Splicer.