Loaded Down
Photos of equipment loadouts for soldiers from 1066 to 2014. This one is from 1588:
Something that will leap out at you is the difference in total load carried by modern soldiers. Better food and better training mean that modern soldiers are bigger and stronger than their ancestors, and thus able to carry a lot more equipment...
That's a summer kit. The infantryman's load in winter gear easily exceeds 100 lbs, and 150 lbs for a heavy weapons specialist. Now carry it 25 miles, uphill, in eight hours and in freezing weather. Oh, and be ready for a fight when you get there.
So, all you hot-to-trot "grrlz" who think you can be combat infantrymen... who's first?
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Something that will leap out at you is the difference in total load carried by modern soldiers. Better food and better training mean that modern soldiers are bigger and stronger than their ancestors, and thus able to carry a lot more equipment...
That's a summer kit. The infantryman's load in winter gear easily exceeds 100 lbs, and 150 lbs for a heavy weapons specialist. Now carry it 25 miles, uphill, in eight hours and in freezing weather. Oh, and be ready for a fight when you get there.
So, all you hot-to-trot "grrlz" who think you can be combat infantrymen... who's first?
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posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:02
1 Comments:
My favorite thing is the 1915 "Trench club" used for "breaking hard ground, or close combat" Its a Mace. The British carried a freaking Mace in WWI.
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