I hope the very real risk of hip stress fractures for women carrying large bergan, webbing and weapon loads does not come back to bite the MOD in the behind.
This study showed '
19.3 and 79.9 cases (of inpatient or outpatient stress fractures) per 1000 recruits for men and women, respectively'.
Maybe the loads have been reduced at Honington to reflect the fact that Gunners will do less humping and dumping and more mobile ops and utilising UAVs for short--range ISTAR etc? (And guarding the EFI in sunglasses perched on a WMIK!) (Banter shield on!)