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From: eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)
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Subject: Re: Ammo load
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Date: 30 Nov 89 03:40:12 GMT
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From: eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)

In article <11701@cbnews.ATT.COM> curt@ai.mit.edu (Curtis Fennell) writes:
>From: curt@ai.mit.edu (Curtis Fennell)
>   Date: Wed, 22 Nov 89 08:09:46 -0800
>   From: Wendell Joost <dirtybob@blake.acs.washington.edu>
>
>   Skipper, I think you made a slight typo.  The basic 03-Humpalot
>   load is between 80 and 100 pounds, not 200 pounds.  If we had to
>   carry 200 pounds we would not be able to make 20 miles per day.
>
>   Wendell M. Joost III, (Cpl, USMC 1983-1987)
>
>
>Curt Fennell, Captain, USMCR.
>

basic combat load (ammunition) used to be 350 *rounds*.  but i never complained
if my team carried more... :-)

W.C. Wood (SGT. USMC '72-'81)


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