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To: ak267

It weighs a lot, a lot more. Anyways, it doesn’t matter as infantry has been carrying around 120 pounds since the Greeks.

12 posted on 04/18/2009 6:11:39 PM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)

To: Leisler

If they do manage to lighten the vests the grunts will just end up humping the weight difference with some other gear.

Thus it has ever been.

15 posted on 04/18/2009 7:24:18 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)

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