The bridge design that helped win World War II

This thing was still a staple of combat engineer training for the first ten years I was in. Being tall, I was always on the panel crew, those damned things were 570 pounds and a six man lift. A day on a panel crew would have you chewing aspirin with your dick in the dirt.

You ever look back after reading articles like this and other articles where they talk about tents, cots, temporary bathrooms, etc and so on? Or the need to move bridges like in this article? Obviously, some of you have, because you've already commented.

My son-in-law, a soldier who did his 4 years in Army infantry and then got out, asked me recently if I ever had to set up camp, sleep on a cot, or what kinds of tents we used, or which MRE I liked best.
I had to remind him that I did 24 years in the U.S. Navy. Did six deployments, 5 to the Arabian Gulf and one Western Pacific deployment, and never once had to set up a tent. I mean really, tents would have become a "FOD" issue on the flight deck. . . and MRE's what's that? We had cooks, galleys, and Mess Decks to eat our meals. Granted, there were a few times, when we had to hold our trays with one hand and eat with the other, or the tray would have followed the tide and slid off the table.
MRE's, the only time I had an MRE was when I was going through Chiefs' Initiation, and that's about all I can say about that.
I know we are all U.S. Military, "One Team, One Fight." When I think about my experiences most days, I'm just really glad I followed my dad's footsteps and chose the Navy.
C-Rations, K-Rations, MRE's? Makes me appreciate Navy MS's back in the day, and more recently CS's. :)

It definitely was a simple concept that helped win the war, if I remember correctly, it is still in use today LTC Eugene Chu