Under the auspices of a Military Light Frame Limited User Evaluation, Marine Corps Systems Command is testing the Mystery Ranch Military Light Frame (formerly known as the Nylinear Individual Carrying Equipment Frame) for use with the Family of Improved Load Bearing Equipment pack. The MLF is a pound lighter than the NICE Frame. LUEs are used to either inform requirements or as a precursor to larger procurements.
Back in May during Modern Day Marine we showed you that the NICE Frame is compatible with the FILBE Pack.
This is great. The NICE frame is frankly pretty old now but a truly fantastic piece of kit. Expensive now too.
The polymer USMC filbe frame’s never failed me.
I have had an Alice frame fail, bend 90 degrees, during an op turning my ruck into a heap. Never again.
It’s actually the newer version of the NICE Frame that is being evaluated. Military Light Frame (MLF) is a pound lighter than NICE with nearly identical load carriage properties.
I just got a pallet of FILBEs from DRMO (because, free) and every single frame was broken. How, who knows, but they aren’t indestructible. We have Frontier Resolve frames to replace them.
CJ – You probably have a pallet of the old, non-reinforced frames. Hence them being broken and DRMO’d.
So I have a tactiplane since 2006. It still works and I don’t need a bunch of dry bags to make it float. I rocked on 2deployments to Afghanistan then bought a trizip I rock it now plus both both float with out trying.
When you carry heavy equipment on your shoulders your performance is degraded. You can recapture some of that degradation, and optimize performance, by carrying some of the weight on your stronger hips and legs. In other limited trials, the empirical data shows that the AttackPAK design improves cognition, speed, accuracy, and physical coordination after carrying heavy kit. It’s the only design that lets you carry kit weight on your hips and still allow quick ditch and easy don. The marines should it a try. People who have used both want the AttackPAK.