Sunday, December 20, 2015

The Things They Carried

Military kit through the ages: from the Battle of Hastings to Helmand

Link via Messy Nessy.

2 comments:

Don Coffin said...

Fascinating. I may have to re-read some historical novels to see how badly they mangled things.

Cap'n Bob said...

My full field equipment ran about 50 pounds. In basic training we had to march waaaay out to a bivouac location in the boonies with all that gear. I got lucky and pulled KP that day and we KPs got to ride out in a truck.