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| U.S. Army Uniform: Weight of Warfare |
| 2009-11-18 |
| 90lbs without a pack |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #5 I've heard that, irrespective of the rest of his load, a soldier can never have too much ammunition... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-11-18 22:44 |
| #4 Ammo, compression bandages, water, stuff... |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2009-11-18 21:27 |
| #3 OK - as I was saying before my comment was basically nuked ... I recall doing an interview with a Nantick labs researcher, when I was at Yongsan and assigned to AFKN-Seoul - wherein the researcher lamented that no matter what genius weight-saving idea they came up with, the Army just came up with more stuff for the combat troops to carry.It seemed that the Army had decided that the combat troops should be loaded down with at least half their body-weight of stuff. Useful and necessary stuff - but any weight eliminated from one element was an excuse to add something else... |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2009-11-18 20:04 |
| #2 In deference to the patriotic WAC POSTER above, the combined weight alone of gear ionclud personal accessories that Male Grunts typically carry into combat = hot zones is reason enuff to disallow women from joining the combat arms. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-11-18 18:24 |
| #1 Gotta be jock to just carry the basic load out. |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-11-18 17:54 |