Infantry troops are supposed to WALK unless mechanized. This riding up and down MSR’s and other roads is why so many are having amputations. The Russians road up and down the same MSR’s/roads in AFGHAN. Their military was defeated using the same tactics being used against us. An Infantry Division might want one Mech BDE out of three. That gives them two leg Infantry Battalions plus an Air Cav unit. That is much wiser. Mech units are not winning in Syria.
Not that I think this is directed related, but the infantry is co-ed now, thanks to Obama (and thanks to Trump and Mattis not reversing it, the one thing I am highly disappointed with). The studies conducted by the services that Mabus and others glibly tossed in the circular file, though, are still entirely valid. Girl infantry are slow, and can’t carry much crap very far at all, and slow down everybody around them. With the army aggressively gender-integrating (101st Airborne and 75Th Ranger Battalion opened to females earlier this year) look for more mechanization, not less.