All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment
The LINCLOE LCE was adopted as Standard A on 17 January 1973 with M-1972 designation to replace M-1956 and M-1967 systems. The designation was changed after its adoption to All-Purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment.[1]
Components
ALICE system is made up of components for the fighting load and additional components for the existence load. These components can be used in all environments - hot, temperate, cold-wet regions, and even in cold-dry arctic regions.
The fighting load equipment consists of the following items:
- Individual Equipment Belt
- MIL-B-43826
- Medium: 8465-00-001-6488
- Large: 8465-00-001-6487
- Small Arms Ammunition Case (30-rd mag)
- MIL-C-43827
- 8465-00-001-6482
- Individual Equipment Belt Suspenders
- MIL-S-43829
- 8465-00-001-6471 [pdf]
- Plastic Intrenching Tool Carrier
- MIL-C-43831
- 8465-00-001-6474 [pdf]
- intrenching tool:
- MIL-I-43684
- 5120-00-878-5932
- Canteen Cover
- MIL-C-43742
- 8465-00-860-0256 [pdf]
- canteen
- MIL-C-43103
- 8465-00-889-3744
- cup
- MIL-C-43761
- 8465-00-165-6838
- First Aid Dressing/Unmounted Magnetic Compass Case
- MIL-C-43745
- 8465-00-935-6814
The existence load equipment consists of the following items:
- Pack Frame
- Item 1 of MIL-F-43834
- Lower Back Strap
- Waist Strap
- MIL-S-43835
- Shoulder Strap without Quick Release
- MIL-S-43835
- Shoulder Strap with Quick Release
- MIL-S-43835
- Cargo Support Shelf
- Item 2 of MIL-F-43834
- Cargo Strap
- Medium Combat Field Pack
- Large Combat Field Pack
- Field Pack Cover
Instruction
- ALICE instruction manual
- FM 21-15. 1977. Chapter 5.
- TM 10-8400-203-23. 1990. Chapter 14.
Replacement
Reference
- Johnson, Richard F. Anthropometry of the Clothed US Army Ground Troop and Combat Vehicle Crewman, 1984. [pdf]
- Nelson, Richard C.; Martin, Philip E. Effects of Gender, Load, and Backpack on Easy Standing and Vertical Jump Performance, Volume II, 1982. [pdf]
