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I know that everyone believes we are in the "fire and forget- computers and drones will fix it all from a continent away" era of warfare, but the reality is that strength and endurance still matter a lot to the world of the Infantry. A couple of attached links are pretty interesting and give you a feel for what life is like when a soldier is not just "Hollywood" jumping and not going out for a mounted patrol on the highway.
The first link is a very cool video of a jump into the Desert from inside the plane and then going out the door. (In the first link you can get a feel for how loaded they are- check out the kid on the far right side at around the 55 second mark when they tell him to stand up and then around 3:53 when he "wadddles" to the door.) On the second link – it’s all about the load: the trooper weighs himself before and after rucking up -which adds almost 130 pounds to his beginning body weight of 175 pounds. The last video has an Infantryman explaining and donning his equipment before he goes out on a mounted patrol. It’s pretty interesting stuff. My knees and back hurt in remembered sympathetic pain!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFodSTuT_LY
http://www.core77.com/posts/41704/How-Much-Weight-Soldiers-Carry-and-Incredible-POV-Footage-of-a-Massive-Paratrooper-Drop
The first link is a very cool video of a jump into the Desert from inside the plane and then going out the door. (In the first link you can get a feel for how loaded they are- check out the kid on the far right side at around the 55 second mark when they tell him to stand up and then around 3:53 when he "wadddles" to the door.) On the second link – it’s all about the load: the trooper weighs himself before and after rucking up -which adds almost 130 pounds to his beginning body weight of 175 pounds. The last video has an Infantryman explaining and donning his equipment before he goes out on a mounted patrol. It’s pretty interesting stuff. My knees and back hurt in remembered sympathetic pain!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFodSTuT_LY
http://www.core77.com/posts/41704/How-Much-Weight-Soldiers-Carry-and-Incredible-POV-Footage-of-a-Massive-Paratrooper-Drop