RE: How to properly lace Belleville TR10x boots, for a flat foot like me
Standard issue boots make flatfeet unable to do long marches.
The autumn before last, I literally marched, in a pair of quite good Finnish made barefoot boots, all the way from Nettuno, south-west of Rome, through Rome, and then onwards all the way through Avezzano, and got lost in the giant ring road that circles it, via Celano, then onwards to eventually striking it lucky and meeting some awesome pig hunters who gave me 25 euros and dropped me at the next trainstation, in Popoli.
I believe that is probably at least 400km, maybe 500, and there is no way I could have done it without barefoot boots.
I'm not joining the military though. I will, however, refine my skills as a hunter. Soldiers are just hunters for the Government. I am a hunter, and Stalker, for God.
edit: also, the way you said 'people with flat foot' made it sound like a disease, and that is exactly how it is sneered at by many people, I'm not saying you meant to say that, but merely that it made me think of how naturally very outside of the normal body features is considered to be a disease. A disease is an evolutionary advantage, in the wrong situation.
My bad, didn't wanna come off as a jerk or something. Just curious. Cool.
No, I don't mean it that way at all, it wasn't intended that way, in fact, I didn't notice it until after I wrote my first draft of the reply. But you know what I mean about how 'flatfoot' especially in army language, is an insult as though you are a deformed, mutant lowlife throwback.
Well, I might be a throwback, but some things were better before.
Never knew they use it in derogatory fashion. Just curious as to their rejection of it.
socialist conformism.