Modern "Heavy" Infantry...

[The Brain]

Section 8 doors? 

Section 8 is a welfare program for housing assistance for low incomes.  Since it's almost universally the bad parts of town, units accepting Section 8 tend to have steel doors, steel frames, and multiple deadbolts or chain locks.

They sound insane.

[Josquius]

I don't know why they're particularly singling out the first aid kit. A 1kg first aid kit is hardly too heavy and is very very useful.

[DontSayBanana]

I don't know why they're particularly singling out the first aid kit. A 1kg first aid kit is hardly too heavy and is very very useful.

It's just one of the pieces that is ostensibly useful but adds dead weight.  The author comes across as for the advancements in the gear, but against their weight- the article does point out that survivability is way up in modern soldiers, but at the cost of common athletic injuries.