I am reading a lot about the RU logistical nightmare during the current war in UA. With all those additional hundreds of thousands of troops being mobilized, it seems they cant even afford to properly equip the ones already on the warfare. I have even seen soldiers that are wearing sneakers instead of combat boots.
My question is, why does it matter? Especially in a warmer months. Why cannot all soldiers just wear the “trail running” shoes or basic “hiking shoes”. How can it be that worse then proper military boots? Cannot it be even better, since it is usually lighter and more comfortable?
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I don’t know about your country’s equipment, but the combat boots I was issued during my service had steel soles that supposedly could resist grenades/mines that go off on the ground. The theory was that you would dive and the explosion/shrapnel would shred your legs but give you a small chance of survival.
We were less optimistic. We joked that if we encountered a frag grenade, the steel sole was for preserving the dogtag we were taught to keep in our boots so the pile of bloodied paste could be identified for our families.
The actual practical difference is that the combat boots were much heavier due to the steel insert.
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