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Originally posted by Fridge Magnet View PostApparently, the black barrack boot will be worn in barracks with the brown combat boots being kept for training/operations.'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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They can wear them(IF FM is correct).On the ground.Which for the RDF would make sense as they would last a lot longer.
Thats the reason we have a Barrack boot and an operational boot in the first place.The Bk boot is cheaper to replace.The same principle is supposed to apply to us as well."Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.
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Originally posted by apod View PostThey can wear them(IF FM is correct).On the ground.Which for the RDF would make sense as they would last a lot longer.
Thats the reason we have a Barrack boot and an operational boot in the first place.The Bk boot is cheaper to replace.The same principle is supposed to apply to us as well.
So brown boots will only be issued a FWT or II to new enterants?
ie we won't all have to get issued them until we need a replacement pair of operational boots?
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Originally posted by trellheim View PostDoc Martins is what you want Guv
http://www.vixensandangels.com/media...e-boot-new.gifI knew a simple soldier boy.....
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
And no one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
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Originally posted by DeV View PostSo brown boots will only be issued a FWT or II to new enterants?
ie we won't all have to get issued them until we need a replacement pair of operational boots?
Just let them go on issue first, then you'll know when you can get issued a pair.
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Originally posted by ropebag View PostAny idea what boots these new brown boots are going to be?
Something tasty from Haix, Meindl or Alt-berg, or something from the more budget end from Hi-Tech or Magnum?For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Originally posted by na grohmití View PostHaix are the current providers to the state services.
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Haix also supply their "Alaska" boot in brown to the BA as one of their cold wet weather boot variants."Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.
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