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Originally Posted by shek
William,
Soldiers carrying too much sh!t have time and time again found that it slows your mobility and results in their own demise, whether they found themselves too spent to fight effectively after a hard movement, or they drowned when faced with a water obstacle where they couldn't jettison all of their equipment.
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I see your point.
Having talked to different people in different places at different times, the burden of kit, some of which may well indeed be superflous, (depending on who is doing the talking) is a common complaint.
Streamlining the kit might be worth looking into but since I do not use the stuff I cannot really comment.
Given the international military proffessional contingent of the WAB, perhaps a thread on this very subject might be in order in the appropriate forum.
If nothing else, it will be intersting to see what members of varying organizations consider to be extraneous yet mandated kit.
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So, leaders have an obligation to make sure that soldiers' wants don't run counter to soldiers' interests.
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That is a reasonable concession to institutional culture; the buck has to stop somewhere.