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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
Silly wabbits, why would anyone wear assault boots to road march?
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Cause they is better than leather boots in the humidity and heat of North Borneo...and they breath alot better than leather boots..
Less blisters..or so the theory goes....but I switched to my old salomon shoes on the last two days of the last 80KM's because of the tendinities in the feet. The aussie soldiers on the march all wore combat leather boots or desert tan boots and also suffered bad bad blisters...the heat and the leather just dont mix in Borneo..and the humidity takes its toll on the feet..
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Picture 1: me and an "escort" on the last leg of the march near the town of ranau
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2...rch2205ol1.jpg
Picture 2: The feet on day 7...falling apart some-what
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9...rch2045ix4.jpg
But it was a good experince...