“Now....just how many days, months and years will someone weighing less than 120 lbs stand up to carrying 70 lbs AND MORE regularly? ”
I weighed 145 pounds at the end of my training at MCRD in San Diego and it was solid muscle. I actually gained almost 20 pounds in 11 weeks. Double rations and vigorous strength training did it. Then I hit AIT and carried a 65 pound ruck almost constantly.
Even in peak physical condition it was difficult.
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I entered Great Lakes at about 130lbs and left two inches taller and twenty pounds heavier.
And the gang bangers at my old school got real pale when I rode up on the motorcycle I had bought from my earnings.
But it was just a short leave en route, and I did not have the time or heart to look up my old “friends”.