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Re: How do you Keep em' from falling apart!
I think it's very on topic. General William Morris wrote a paper for the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (Vol. X, 1867) conveying some "lessons learned" from the war. Two passages seem relevant:
"Many regiments went to the field with the cartridge-box carried on the waist-belt; but the weight upon the intestines so frequently produced rupture, that the shoulder-belt was generally restored."
"The knapsack is the most faulty of the several articles a fully-equipped soldier is required to carry. It is generally hung upon the shoulders with a complication of straps which distress the chest, and is made unnecessarily burdensome by the leverage caused by its thickness."
Both of these quotes tend to support the idea that carrying the number of rounds many of us are accustomed to would have had dire consequences in the real war.
Anyway, it's an interesting article. If we really thought about it no one would carry much more than 40 rounds without a willingness to enact rupture or sciatica.
Originally posted by john duffer
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"Many regiments went to the field with the cartridge-box carried on the waist-belt; but the weight upon the intestines so frequently produced rupture, that the shoulder-belt was generally restored."
"The knapsack is the most faulty of the several articles a fully-equipped soldier is required to carry. It is generally hung upon the shoulders with a complication of straps which distress the chest, and is made unnecessarily burdensome by the leverage caused by its thickness."
Both of these quotes tend to support the idea that carrying the number of rounds many of us are accustomed to would have had dire consequences in the real war.
Anyway, it's an interesting article. If we really thought about it no one would carry much more than 40 rounds without a willingness to enact rupture or sciatica.
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