High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The All-Purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment, or ALICE system, was adopted as United States Army Standard A on 17 January 1973 to replace the M-1956 Load-Carrying Equipment and M-1967 Modernized Load-Carrying Equipment . ALICE gear is still in some limited use in the US Army in National guard and training units. USMC currently use ALICE gear in training only. Still in use by Navy and Air Force ground units.