Well I cannot speak for the US, but the UK infantry are probably just as fit and just as robust as in past times. The same is probably true for their shooting.
..... but there are a number of pressing questions to be asked about UK infantry training, if only because what we did "back in the old days" was not good, and we might still be doing the same things today. IMO, a lot can be simplified. In my Kingdom, infantry training would be different from today and nothing like the bad old days.
For the UK, there is masses of data on every injury from Iraq and A'Stan, and it's all used to inform body armour design.I remember a diagram of the human body front and rear where the areas of wounds by percentage were indicated. I am wondering if they have such stats on Afghanistan already? And any which relate to wounds and injuries which have been avoided through the use of body armour?
IMO, there are some sensible questions to be asked about body armour, especially the ballistic standards in relation to aerial density, and coverage.
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