How much is a U.S. GI's man-portable combat gear worth?

The cost of U.S. Army man-portable equipment has tripled since 2000. The cost of a U.S. soldier's equipment (including night-vision gear), which was about $7,083 in 2000, has jumped to nearly $26,000 today.

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 A soldier carries a sling, which is made of aluminum and contains bullets, water bottles, PDAs, reconnaissance equipment, biological and chemical weapons detectors, a first aid kit, 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.

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