The gear soldiers carry

well so this is the gear that every soldier is going to get for deployment purposes from Fort Lewis at least right now we're doing the iotv body armor which is an improved outer tactical vest and that's just the vest itself you have your ESP eyes were there in the enhanced side ballistic inserts one on each side for too many people were getting drone didn't on the side where that was wasn't protected and then you have big ones of these in the front and back with everything on here it's a good 30 pound ok so there's that what about the helmet ok so you have your helmet and cover which is the 5 pounds itself with night vision and the night vision mount and the night vision glasses is about another 5 so 10 total when they have everything on here so you have the the goatskin Nomex gloves and their gloves or glove weight not very much at all the things are really improved again really good stuff yeah two ounces ok so now you have that your elbow and knee pad set and this is the improved one but it's not even a pound you know it's really improved toward they don't even away very much and then we have your the revisions of software glasses there they have the sunglasses and the clear insert for shrapnel and everything to keep it out of their eyes ok so this is what they call a flick which is a load-bearing vest on each side we have a triple mag side by side pouch you have 3 magazine pouches two Hand Grenade pouches and to canteen pouches on either side and then your eye FAC which is a first-aid kit right now it's not too bad but when you get everything in it I'm sure it can be about 10 pounds with all the magazines and everything that they need okay so we got the Camelback and there it's a hundred ounce bladder in there with everything on there because they need that that's a big thing 100 ounces is maybe 5 pounds oh we have the rucksack - yeah we have to sustainment pouches on either side you have your frame shoulder straps and the waist belt there's a lot of space in there this is everything that they're taking they don't need anything else clothes everything it's all in there I know

Channel: The Seattle Times

Views: 2,332,284

Keywords: February 9 2011, Army, seattletimes.com, equipment, The Seattle Times, Danny Gawlowski, joint base lewis-mcchord, gear, Weight of War, 02/09/2011, McChord, youtube

Id: LKH_M2nPBKE

Length: 2min 43sec (163 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 17 2011