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I am stealing this.

It absolutely is a profound statement because it is a profound problem.

And it all goes back to the worry that there will be gnashing of teeth from Mom or Dad if Joe or Johnny is killed via an...

We got a little bit better with a new ration that left out a ton of the BS packaging.

http://www.mreinfo.com/us/fsr/first-strike-ration.html

Is it possible to find this article online?

A two-pronged problem we face in carried loads is centered on the almost unquenchable appetite for battery power. In the first prong we have increased a patrol's carried load for force protection...

Now that I think about it, maybe it was the CFP-90 pack with stays and an adjustable yoke that I was thknking of.

Gents,

I am on a smart device and it is maddening to try to search through this thread, but does anyone recall mention of an older pack ( it might even be in a different thread) that had a design...

Absolutely Ken, absolutely. I was think more along the lines of the watch officer having the opportunity to hear that folks on the ground are getting shot at, and yes, they need support right now. ...

Computers are the devil, in a combat environment, when we let them take over and supplant a lot of the basic fieldcraft and otherwise reliable technology we already possess.

One example is the use...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8455741/Britains-donkey-soldiers-are-losing-the-war-in-Afghanistan.html

The tables tend to be fixed at the worst times. We call it "sticking to the SOP (standard operating procedure)", and unfortunately, there are more times than not where little thought is applied to...

In the Marine Corps, I don't think the doctrinal texts tell a different story yet, but a squad of grunts turned writers after Fallujah v.2.0 drafted the superb AAR that is is terribly difficult to...

In the Corps, we call them Sherpa drops. Witnessed three of them used to resupply us near the Syrian border in 2004. The require a logistics tail though to retrieve the equipment and parachutes...