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Originally posted by glatt
Is this where I can start to talk about my boots? Not magic boots. My old child sized Vietnam surplus boots I got in '76. What in the world were they doing, making child sized jungle combat boots back in '76. I mean, the whole $$$ footwear thing didn't exist then. These were real US combat boots. Sized for a third grade boy. Why? Did they take draftees that were that small?
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The government drafted anyone that was still breathing during the war. As to your boots, the US supplied the ARVN Forces (Vietnamese good-guys) with uniforms and weapons and they all tended to be short, thin and about a hundred pounds or so. (Tough little fuckers, though) Maybe you got a set of boots produced for the Army/Republic of Viet Nam