U.S. warfighter equipment today covers four major areas: personal protection, survival protection, weaponry, and night-vision gear. To a U.S. Army rifleman load, for example, in addition to man-portable weapons, he is generally dressed in anti-nuclear, chemical and biological three-proof clothing, gloves, masks, as well as the standard configuration of the bullet-proof undershirt, man-portable binoculars / scopes, night-vision devices and batteries, etc., he would also like to shoulder a sling-type carry equipment, its back frame for the aluminum alloy, which is loaded with bullets, water bottles, GPS, PDAs, reconnaissance equipment, chemical and biological weapons detector The carrier is made of aluminum and contains bullets, water bottles, PDAs, reconnaissance equipment, biological and chemical weapons detectors, medical first aid kits and even spare underwear. Counting down a soldier's back hanging a variety of equipment varieties not less than a hundred, with "armed to the teeth" are difficult to describe.
According to the current 1996 version of the U.S. Army man-portable weight standards, the U.S. man-portable load than the World War II period doubled. Much of the U.S. Army's man-portable equipment is multifunctional. U.S. troops wearing Kevlar helmets not only to defend against bullets and shrapnel, but also to become a soldier's "second brain". Currently in Iraq, the United States Marine Corps soldiers wear helmets to accommodate a micro-radio equipment, a microphone and a pair of headphones, to facilitate the soldiers with their comrades and commanders to contact. The radar device on the top of the helmet will report the exact location of the soldier. And the American soldiers wear boots is not trivial, the U.S. Army in Iraq is equipped with desert combat boots contain 15 kinds of new inventions and new technology, not only can be strong sweat absorption, breathability, and even Iraqi anti-American armed forces set up iron nail array can not help the U.S. Army this pair of desert combat boots. Even the U.S. Johnson and Johnson for the U.S. military production of anti-peeing underpants have a wonderful use, because the Iraqi desert gravel like talcum powder as fine, U.S. soldiers in Iraq with anti-peeing underpants over the muzzle of the rifle, you can prevent these small gravel clogging the barrel of the rifle.
In addition, U.S. soldiers entering the information age are covered with a variety of sensor materials. Motorola provides a kind of micro-computer for U.S. soldiers, and actually puts a small mouse on the belt of the uniform. In this way, computers and communications technologies will become the most common weapons worn by soldiers on their waists, backs, shoulders and heads. The equipment puts soldiers in direct contact with higher command and communication systems