the next time you play rifleman, i want you to do this.
Buy 3 machete scabbards at your vendor.
Get two additional combat knifes from a weapons vendor, mouth slot and ear slot. Or 3, if you hate CIC.
Get the M11 throwing knife rig, and the Machete Pocuhes from req
Bring heavy armor, and get 2 extra knifes alongside the 2-3 already
Go forth, gods heaven soldier. May you be blessed by Oxycodone. DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS
Boxer
Noob detected, take the machetes in squad prep, why buy. Also you are not Dallas Weeter, don’t try this.
use the points 
Should forgo the throwing knives since they’re no good for directly stabbing and instead use the space to carry drugs so you can survive stabbing xenos longer. A throwing knife shows weakness (encourages running), an oxy injector shows strength (encourages fighting).
Also, take the Hardcore trait so you perma if you ever go down. You are an honorable warrior and must die if you ever lose in battle. You’ll also fight better if you are in perpetual fear of being perma’d. Such is the way.
Look. The machete is a perfectly fine weapon, sure. But there is yet something stronger you can forge with your own hands.
Ingredients
1 metal sheet
15 cable coil
1 window (sacrificial)
Step one. Conscript your local engineer to bend the metal sheets into rods.
Step two; utilize the cable coil to make cable cuffs.
Step three; slap the metal rods and the cable cuffs together to make a WIRED ROD.
Step four; break your sacrificial window.
Step five; take one of the shards of glass and jam it onto the wired rod.
Realize that you have now crafted the true melee weapon. The Spear.
Profit.
You are not Masamune Sanada. Stop trying to be him.
Replace Heavy Armor with B12 (if you dont like slow)
Buy Machete Pouch
Put ACID harness (shameless advert) in your uniform and put beaker of unga juice and battery (use multitool to it and select brute).
Get 3 Machete scabbards at prep (Armor holster, Belt, Back)
Get First-aid pouch and fill it with splint for impending 100 fractures
I unironically do melee spec
Solid load out.
The humble Warrior: