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Originally Posted by BMT
How did us ole FARTS make it thru 20+ years w/o insoles and $300.00 running shoes?
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Beats me!! We ran every bit of it in regular issue boots and OD socks, in fatigues (that will date me a tad....jeeez). Did the entire time I served. I'll leave out the running with weapon and rucks. Even TDY in Greece for small boat and scout swimmer training we ran 5 miles every morning. One E-7 made a point of donning his Chippewas' to make those runs. For those who don't know what the Chippewa boot is or was..... it was our ski boot (downhill/crosscountry) heavy, biggggg, cloddy...... great boot in the snow though, if ya kept it heavily treated with what we referred to as "whale shit". Hell, he brought those with him for no other reason than for those 5 mi runs every morning. They aren't much good for swimming 3, 5, 7 miles in.
Which on most days during that month followed the mornin' jog.
Oh BTW to bring this back on thread. the only time I or any of us "customized" our boots was in Tolz. Standing in formation in the winter in the Quad drove us to having the soles "beefed" up. Frickin feet could freeze if ya didn't.......freezing feet in the field is one thing, but dammit not during formations back in the Kaserne. One has to draw a line at some point.........
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