>>2534340>It was made for someone to carry combat gear while wearing other gear, not to comfortably carry and sensibly organize a expedition's worth of thingsSome military packs can be very organized. And for more than just lugging shit load of combat gear. Take an alice for example. All those pouches. Certain places for certain gear. And don't forget that sometimes soldiers have very little time and a lot of shit to do in that time. If you can sit down behind it and open one or two pouches and feed yourself in 10 minutes, without moving from that spot, while never touching the main pouch where your sleeping gear and clothing are until it's time to use them. That's great for anyone imo. They're also huge yeah, you don't have to fill it up. But to replace where you might have inside main pouch a big old radio and a bunch of machine gun belts with extra food and water. You can go a long way with one. People love to say the things are old and outdated but I just call it proven. I can tell you I've been in a light inf unit where we got new age packs given to us and quite promptly everyone decided it was a piece of shit and demanded the alice back, because the new thing was basically 2 big compartments, and other crap like straps breaking etc.
>>2532922>they have one problem: waist straps, not hip strapsYou'd find most soldiers that patrol with one on cut off those things anyway, because you really don't want to be stuck to a 100lb pack when someone starts shooting at you. You want to drop the thing asap
There is actually some modern takes on these packs made but they cost about an arm and a leg, but if sounds interesting look up MALICE pack. Or really you could make something quite similar with a few old surplus packs and a sewing awl
