>>36413>DesignYou'll also often find military packs deficient in things like simple design. Often having things like huge, single main compartments that have been dead in the hiking world for a couple of years now, or things like quick release straps for ditching in case you get ambushed and have to jam ass at the drop of a hat, or find yourself in a lake for some unexplained reason.
In the end, you often see that units that can use civilian hiking gear, from boots to bags, often do because it's typically better. And you high end companies that I mentioned earlier, like London Bridge Trading, Mystery Ranch, Erbelstock and Kifaru often take civilian pack designs and modify them a little for military use. Modifications include compartmentalizing the main pack, cutting yolks for people wearing plated body armor, or just reinforcing it for the 110 pounds you might be carrying. They also often have very specific functions, often at the cost of sacrifices in other design facets like precision weapon carry that most hikers will never use.
This picture is my own personal ALICE, modified in a way that no hiker would ever find useful because they don't need some weird ass shaped pouch that holds a red mist machine. Things like that are what make military packs acceptable, but far from ideal packs, especially with the plethora of lowish cost packs like Keltys and Osperys which aren't using tech from the 60s like an ALICE.
