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Originally Posted by 504PIR
Never got vehicles, but always more "lightweight" crap to stuff in there.
Ever read I believe it was "A Soldiers Load" by General Marshal?
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went from carrying 100 pounds of heavy stuff to carrying 100 pounds of lightweight stuff...for every pound of weight saved by new technology, we added another pound of bullets....
i've read A Soldier's Load...when i was a company commander in Alaska, it was a big issue...when we jumped into JRTC at Chaffee, the average load, including parachute kit, rucksack, load bearing junk, weapons and container, etc., was somewhere north of 135 pounds per trooper...