Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
Yet it's possible to hide rather well as long as you don't move. In fact movement is still extremely helpful for detection, especially when camouflage or when radar is being used.
And you cannot move 24/7 anyway, especially not as infantry.
Got no problem with hiding, terrain and vegetation permitting and I've done a lot of that in a lot of places, it's not hard -- and light Infantry should not be employed where those factors do not exist -- and yes, people do need to eat and sleep but that does not require digging, which was my primary point. A secondary point is that going to ground under indirect fire is a no-no (or should be), one has to move out of it and rapidly.

Radar is vastly overrated as a surveillance device in most terrain aside from the desert, even foliage penetrating radar cannot see through slight folds in the ground. Tactical surprise is obtained by doing the smart thing, not by being caught out on a dumb route.
Firefights (direct fire) produce lots of fragments - 40mm, rifle grenades, hand grenades, recoilless weapons, spalling cover. Anti-frag is not only indirect fires.
Light infantry depends on its leg mobility - a perforated leg is a real problem on patrol or when attempting to break contact.
Recoilless weapons? you're showing your age...

True but as VMI Marine says, the weight is a trade off. Plus it's really amazing how many people don't get wounded in firefights -- not to mention how many wounds are really superficial...