[troopie]

and a discussion on the old Yahoo List where the armoured okes were amazed at the ammo loads we footies carried. Yes we were truly Malan's Mules.

I carried an average of 240 rounds for my R-1 on patrol. I never carried less than two hundred, and often carried three hundred. I remember that I never carried the same exact load twice.

troopie

R-1 rounds are rifle rounds only. That doesn't include the bunker bombs, grenades, FN-MAG belts or pistol and pistol rounds carried.