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Originally posted by northie
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Apparently, the black barrack boot will be worn in barracks with the brown combat boots being kept for training/operations. -
I can see that ending in tears for somebody...Originally posted by Fridge Magnet View Post'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.htmlComment
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If this means that you will now be forced to wear a brown boot on the ground when you have superior black ones in the locker for the sake of uniformity, I will be a very sad panda indeed.Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.Comment
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Excuse for all RDF to be issued Operational Boots? That they then can't wear?!Comment
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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.Comment
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Originally posted by apod View Post
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?Comment
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I havent even been issued black operational boots yetComment
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Any 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?Comment
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Doc Martins is what you want Guv"Are they trying to shoot down the other drone? "
"No, they're trying to fly the tank"Comment
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I 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.Comment
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Nobody bloody knows yet.Originally posted by DeV View Post
Just let them go on issue first, then you'll know when you can get issued a pair.Comment
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Haix are the current providers to the state services.Originally posted by ropebag View PostFor now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.Comment
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More like the haix distributers in Ireland, Brix workwear are the providers of footwear across the state and semi state bodies. In terms of boots produced in brown at present, there are the "Boots Combat, High Liability" a leather and fabric boot produced for the uk. A somewhat tastier boot from what I can see is the "CHAUSSURES DE COMBAT CENTRE EUROPE" also sold as the Nebraska Pro that haix make for the french. Both are goretex lined with PU midsoles, vibram soles and a neat lacelock facility for adjusting tension. A purchase of either would surely benefit from economies of scale, rather than a bastardaised boot that is made to uniquely irish spec and our organisational hatred of lacing hooks.Originally posted by na grohmití View PostComment
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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.Comment
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Why did we go with the D rings instead of hooks that people were well used to in meindls, lowas and hanwags for years?Everyone who's ever loved you was wrong.Comment
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