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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 2528509" data-attributes="member: 1132"><p>Loadouts have gotten progressively heavier over the years. I remember going on a march during an exercise through the coastal hills in SE Spain back in the mid 80's. We'd been on ship for about a month, so our PT regimen wasn't quite up to snuff. I was carrying an M16, PRC-77 radio and a 3 day ruck. My A-Gunner had his ruck, M16 and a Stinger missile (35#). He was in worse shape than me unfortunately. At various points, I'd either have both M16's & the radio, or the radio and missile. We did 21 clicks in 16 hours, a lot of which was at a pretty steep incline or decline. This wasn't a road march either. At one point I got stung on the thigh by some wicked-assed creature and had a welt the size of a tennis ball. I did a lot of stuff in my 4.5 years, but that march was the hardest by far. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually there are three .45 mags (one in the gun and two in the flat pouch on the left). The other five pouches with 5 pockets each are loaded with en-bloc clips. So that's 200 rounds for the Garand and 21 for the 1911.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 2528509, member: 1132"] Loadouts have gotten progressively heavier over the years. I remember going on a march during an exercise through the coastal hills in SE Spain back in the mid 80's. We'd been on ship for about a month, so our PT regimen wasn't quite up to snuff. I was carrying an M16, PRC-77 radio and a 3 day ruck. My A-Gunner had his ruck, M16 and a Stinger missile (35#). He was in worse shape than me unfortunately. At various points, I'd either have both M16's & the radio, or the radio and missile. We did 21 clicks in 16 hours, a lot of which was at a pretty steep incline or decline. This wasn't a road march either. At one point I got stung on the thigh by some wicked-assed creature and had a welt the size of a tennis ball. I did a lot of stuff in my 4.5 years, but that march was the hardest by far. Actually there are three .45 mags (one in the gun and two in the flat pouch on the left). The other five pouches with 5 pockets each are loaded with en-bloc clips. So that's 200 rounds for the Garand and 21 for the 1911. [/QUOTE]
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