I would pare your list down and make a few mods.
Motorolas are gone, as the Army fielded the MBITR radio instead, which is FH capable/secure and links with SINCGARS. There are some brit squad radios floating around still.
I never carried a signal mirror on me, had VS-17's on the vehicles as standard load. Never carried a whistle either. Pyro was also not usually carried on-body, except for a red smoke grenade. Given that we rarely did vehicle unsupported patrols, and the heat was so oppressive, we tended to reduce the soldier's load to weapons, comms, water, ammo, AFAK, and other essentials.
Of course, all of this came along on dismounted-only movements. However, as this means there is no effective ECM coverage of the patrol, it was rarely done due to IED threats.
Maybe I should have carried some of those things. Within a patrol comms are also conducted through BFT/FBCB2 text messaging.
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