Weapons, food, bedroll, comms gear, mission specific items, spare parts for everything to try and thwart Murphy, etc…yeah it’s a lot and that’s just a regular grunt, not someone like a machine gunner with an even heavier weapon/ammo or carrying rockets.
Knees and ankles are an issue for pretty much every infantry soldier, the ones jumping out of planes with all that shit bundled to you even more so.
Man, I don’t get it. Infantry has pretty much been a “hold this heavy ass shit, walk long distances, kill enemies before they kill you.”
And somehow militaries for thousands of years have been able to convince huge groups of young men to either sign up for this or because they were told “or else.”
And I guess “or else” is usually starvation, conscription, or execution. At any point a group being trained could say “yo guys this is stupid” everyone else would probably agree, and then the entire army thing would … Stop. wouldn’t it?
Weapons, food, bedroll, comms gear, mission specific items, spare parts for everything to try and thwart Murphy, etc…yeah it’s a lot and that’s just a regular grunt, not someone like a machine gunner with an even heavier weapon/ammo or carrying rockets.
Knees and ankles are an issue for pretty much every infantry soldier, the ones jumping out of planes with all that shit bundled to you even more so.
Man, I don’t get it. Infantry has pretty much been a “hold this heavy ass shit, walk long distances, kill enemies before they kill you.”
And somehow militaries for thousands of years have been able to convince huge groups of young men to either sign up for this or because they were told “or else.”
And I guess “or else” is usually starvation, conscription, or execution. At any point a group being trained could say “yo guys this is stupid” everyone else would probably agree, and then the entire army thing would … Stop. wouldn’t it?