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Message: [QUOTE="Frisco, post: 75649, member: 161"] [URL="http://www.ssrsi.org/Onsite/PDFbin/FMs/Modern%20Warrior%92s%20Combat%20Load%20Report.pdf"]Modern Warriors combat load report[/URL] This is an Army report written in 2003 after 6 months of observation of the 82nd doing dismounted operations in Afghanistan. Contains a pretty objective view, average pack weights and what was in them, Which ends up saying basically the same thing that MAJ. Ehrhart said only seven years earlier. 80 pages of telling the Army that soldiers are overburdened with what is considered mission essential equipment. Nothing will change until the Army figures out a way to make the gear lighter, because they damn sure aren't going to let them loose anything except comfort items. [/QUOTE]