All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment

All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment
ALICE components circa 1973
Place of origin	United States
Service history
In service	1973–1997 (wasn't fully replaced until the mid 2000s)
Used by	See Users
Wars	Lebanese Civil War Salvadoran Civil War Somali Civil War Invasion of Grenada Invasion of Panama Persian Gulf War Kosovo War War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Iraq War
Production history
Designed	1965–1973

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^[1] to replace the M-1956 individual load-carrying equipment (ILCE) and M-1967 modernized load-carrying equipment (MLCE). Although since superseded by MOLLE, ALICE gear is still in some limited use with the U.S. Army National Guard, State Guard, also some ground units of the Navy and Air Force.