[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The "Red Bulls". They gave it their all for you and me.

[wastedyears]

I don’t have to wear gear to be short.

It stinks =(

[madison10]

Hope they recover quickly.

So do school children get shorter after hauling around book bags all year?

[Little Bill]

In 1965 when I was 19 I went to Viet Nam I weighed 165#. We carried about 60# as a combat load, M-14 days. By the time I left in early 1967 I was 130# and the load was 40#, early M-16.

When I when back in later 1967 if you couldn't eat it or shoot it or use it to keep the rain off you didn't carry it, I was in an Air Scout Unit so the loads varied, we had discretion a lot of the grunts did not.

[Redleg Duke]

Yeah. It happened to us in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, and nobody really cared.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Get set up with a select comfort bed starting now.It wont get any better than that.If it is bad now when they hit their 40s it will be terrible.

[VOA]

“...doctors say that’s because the 60 to 90 pounds of gear they carried
likely caused their spinal discs to compress.”

I’m not a medical doctor...
but maybe this should be tried (UNDER MEDICAL SUPERVISION) to see
if it can help put things back in place?
(I’ve never tried it, it could just be hokum)

Inversion Therapy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_therapy

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Some of the 2,600 Minnesota National Guard members who spent 16 months in Iraq say their tour of duty made them shorter, at least temporarily, and doctors say that’s because the 60 to 90 pounds of gear they carried likely caused their spinal discs to compress.”

Gee. I’m 5’1 and was 100 pounds WITH my full gear while I was in the Army for 20 years, LOL!

This is one of two things: A bogus story to begin with, or some Minnesota Social Worker laying the ground work for grant money to “research” this post-war “disorder.”

*Rolleyes*

[Brucifer]

I grew two inches after I got discharged at Oakland. I was pretty much a baby soldier.