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Originally Posted by Chairborne64
I guess I am just a caveman!  I do know that I am 6'2 and well over 200lbs and am really broken by some of the loads I carried. Here is a link to one of the studies. It does not have size but if you do the math on their fighting load to percentage of body weight the average infantryman is about 180lbs.
http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/m...LoadReport.pdf |
The average Infantrymen is also 22-24 years old and 180lbs of lean muscle. (Don't quote me on that. I may have made it up but I'm close. It would go down quite a bit if you got rid of the platoon sergeant.)
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