All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment

Military personal equipment system All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment ALICE components circa 1973Place of originUnited StatesService historyIn service1973–1997 (fully phased out of U.S. service in the mid-2000s)Used bySee UsersWarsLebanese Civil WarSalvadoran Civil WarInvasion of GrenadaInvasion of PanamaPersian Gulf WarSomali Civil WarKosovo WarWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)Iraq WarProduction historyDesigned1967–1973 The all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment (ALICE) is a set of load-carrying equipment, adopted as United States Army Standard A on 17 January 1973. The ALICE system was developed from 1967 to 1972 in the LINCLOE (lightweight individual combat clothing and equipment) program, and was initially designated the M-1972 lightweight load-carrying equipment (LLCE), switching to the ALICE name shortly afterward. ALICE replaced the M-1956 individual load-carrying equipment (ILCE) and M-1967 modernized load-carrying equipment (MLCE). In 1988, the individual integrated fighting system (IIFS) was introduced to complement the ALICE pack and suspenders, mainly addressing center of gravity and storage space capability shortcomings. IIFS, howev