Once testing concludes, the Army plans to offer two different pad options for soldiers to choose from when assembling their helmet, Carter said. First aid kit pouch and grenade launcher holster In ...

So the service finds itself in a place where a dismounted soldier can be walking around with more than 80 pounds of kit, including four or five radios that each do something different.

It portrays a proud but fleeting time, experienced by tens of thousands of black soldiers across the country. Along Main Streets and Central Avenues, they marched in full kit, as bystanders ...