Talk:Jump boot

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This sentence is ambiguous:

Jump boots are fully laced from the instep to the top and give more support to the ankle whereas ordinary combat boots during World War Two were laced just above the ankle and had to be worn with leggings or puttees to prevent mud and dirt from entering the shoe.

Is it the jump boots or the WW2 combat boots that needed the leggings or puttees? Pretzelpaws 22:03, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

These are two different sentences, which would normally be seperated by a semi-colon or comma. Notice the whereas in the middle, which indicates a comparison between the subject of the previous sentence and the subject of the next. With the right punctuation in place, it should make more sense (granted, it would be better to rewrite it entirely):

"Jump boots are fully laced from the instep to the top and give more support to the ankle; whereas ordinary combat boots during World War Two were laced just above the ankle, and had to be worn with leggings or puttees to prevent mud and dirt from entering the shoe." --Addama 13:45, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Niceness

The bit about not wearing paratrooper boots if you're a leg (in other words, not qualified to be delivered to the battlefield by parachute) can't be cited since it's not actually against regulations. It's a social thing. Paratrooper boots are earned, along with jump wings and the beret and the title.

Wearing jump boots when you're not airborne is like wearing a cop's SWAT gear (minus the gun and grenades and stuff, ok, anybody can wear knee- and elbow-pads and bulletproof vests but not anybody can walk around with a Heckler and Koch UMP) when you're not SWAT-trained. You look dumb/goofy/weird/a bit of a prick/cocky/wannabe/egotist/et cetera. 'Nuff said. It's like wearing a stethescope when you're not a doctor.

Jump boots announce to the world at large that you are a soldier trained and ready to jump out of an airplane, properly execute a parachute landing fall, and then take up your weapon and kill people in a manner that may and that you intend to benefit others. It's a helluva statement to make, more so than most articles of clothing worn to "make a statement".

So there.

Citation THAT.

PS I'm a civilian.

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