Original sentence: A rucksack, a large backpack for carrying items that need not be often accessed.Many Marines have publically voiced a preference for the seventies-era All Purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment (ALICE) packs over the unreliable modern MOLLE packs, but individual operators may buy 3rd-party packs which surpass both aforementioned government issue products in durability.This could either be the current standard issue second generation US Modular Lightweight Load-Carrying Equipment (MOLLE) Fighting Load Carrier vest (FLC) or the late 1980s to early 1990s US Integrated Individual Fighting System (IIFS) non-modular load bearing vest (LBV-88) (the latter of which is actually more popular, since the current issue MOLLE is considered not durable enough for prolonged use by many Marines), or an operator-bought 3rd-party LBV
Edited sentence: A rucksack, a huge backpack for carrying items that need not be often accessed.Marines prefer the seventies-era All Purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment (ALICE) packs over the unreliable modern MOLLE packs, but operators do buy 3rd-party packs which surpass both aforementioned government issue products in durability.This could either be the current standard issue second generation US Modular Lightweight Load-Carrying Equipment (MOLLE) Fighting Load Carrier vest (FLC), the late 1980s to early 1990s US Integrated Individual Fighting System (IIFS) non-modular load bearing vest (LBV-88) (the latter of which is actually more popular, since the current issue MOLLE is considered not durable enough for prolonged use by many Marines), or an operator-bought 3rd-party LBV