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U.S. Army soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division return fire during a firefight with Taliban forces in Barawala Kalay Valley in Kunar province, Afghanistan, 31 March 2011. (Photo: Wikipedia)

How Much Do Soldiers Carry on Deployment?

It isn’t easy to provide a definitive answer to how much weight soldiers carry on deployment. However, it is estimated that soldiers and Marines deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan routinely carried between
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