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Originally Posted by Buffalobob
A basic load was 600 rds of 5.56 of which half was in mags and half in bandoliers, six frags, two smokes. one claymore and six to eight quarts of water.
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Could be your age is showing, I carried 35 magazines/700 rounds. 5 frags, two 60 mike mike, water about the same (if we had water) and if 81s were with us, even more. Was it enough? Would have carried more if we could have.
Mutter's ridge 1969.
Nothing was typical.