[Future Snake Eater]

My kit weighed easily about 70 pounds and I didn’t have to carry the real heavy stuff since I was never more than 100m or so from a Stryker.

I have some knee problems, but they tend to dissipate if I take chondroitin steadily for a few days. I really feel bad for the Afghanistan light infantry guys carrying all their gear up and down mountains. That’s gotta hurt.

[Lurker]

Soldiers have been carrying roughly the same weight into combat for about the last 1500 years or so. The more the gear gets lightened, the more crap gets stuffed into it.

That is an immutable Law of War.