One of the most worrisome things I've seen about the soldier's load: Undermanned units carrying more weight

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This is
from a detailed 82nd Airborne briefing that
involved weighing soldiers wearing their basic loads:

Force cap has reduced the size of
the infantry platoon. The overall weight carried by the individual would be
lower, but due to being force capped most rifle squads are running at 7 men.
Machinegun teams are either 2 or 3 men. This leaves most platoons around 28
personal instead of the 40 they would usually have.