>renders an entire regiment useless

>renders an entire regiment useless
How did soldiers deal with blisters?

250 Piece Survival Gear First Aid Kit

LifeStraw Water Filter for Hiking and Preparedness

250 Piece Survival Gear First Aid Kit

  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Proper socks, boots, and foot hygiene is the only way to mitigate severe blisters.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      doubling up on socks too.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >intentionally adding more friction potential with layers of cloth that will rub against one another
        do not do this, just get good socks.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          what?
          are you moronic? doubling up on wool socks is the standard way to wear socks in my countrys military just because it prevents blistering.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >in my countrys military
            Let me guess: They have two boot sizes. 'Too large' and 'even larger'. Just put on more socks until they fit.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              thats all militaries, surely?

              • 1 year ago
                slidethread

                no.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Doubling socks is an ancient military trick recommended since forever. It works well too. I did it for many years tramping USAF ramps (concrete beats the frick out of feet).

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          https://www.blister-prevention.com/double-socks/

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZdzRXc3q7o

            Huh, in basic they always told us not to double up on socks. I wonder if that was just because we were all moronic boots and would inevitably frick ourselves up doing it wrong.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Dress socks + the Green socks worked good though, it was specifically doubling up on the green socks.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Double socks are good if the shoes are slightly too big which is almost always the case for me as I have narrow feet. Just make sure to combine a stretchy thin pair with a wooly lose pair.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >listening to women

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              when the woman looks like that? yeah

            • 1 year ago
              guarunteed replies

              That's a man

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >listening to women

            About stuff like this? They are more credible than men.

            https://i.imgur.com/dxFYPCW.jpg

            >renders an entire regiment useless
            How did soldiers deal with blisters?

            Wear socks. Ive only ever gotten feet blisters from barefoot walking on hot surfaces. Otherwise, wear socks. And change them.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >female that has never marched more than 2 miles is more credible than men who marched 20+ in one go
              Yep yep yep whatever you say, hole.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There is no friction, no rubbing up unless you have loose ass socks. The wool fabrics lock together and do not rub against one another in practice. Put book down and try to wear them yourself. You live in clouds.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The only thing you really have to worry about is circulation if anything, but even that is hardly ever an issue so long as you choose the right stuff. I double up all the time because I wear size 14’s and have no issues, my boots almost feel like slippers sometimes between the socks and my inserts. Same thing when I was innanavy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ^that plus I've seen a guy who would soak his feet in rubbing alcohol the night before a long ruck. I've never tried it but he swore by it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >soak his feet in rubbing alcohol the night
        Wouldn't that just dry his shit out making him prone to blisters?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Soaking your feet in alcohol or tannic acid is common for marathon runners, mountain climbers, etc. it dries out but also toughens the skin.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            But that's something you kinda do once, then not for a while, it's probably a short term advantage but a disadvantage long term.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That and not being on foot when they need to.
      Better funded militaries won't make soldiers march everywhere.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, but then you get taken prisoner and the fricking yellow Nips send you on the Bataan Death March.

        You got blisters and drop out if that column, and they use for a Ginsu knife commercial.

        The deaths of young guys on the Bataan Death March was why the MCCRES 25-miler with full gear in under 8 hours was instituted.
        Pity my poor dumb Honkie ass humping a 36# Dragon missile in addition to my M16!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Well funded militaries don't need light infantry
        Lol. Lmao even.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >strawman

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This plus lots of tape where blisters might happen

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Proper socks, boots, and foot hygiene
      Russians are short on all of these

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This plus some practice force marching. Not only does this condition the foot to be more resiliant but also helps train the soldier to recognize and treat blisters.

      This plus lots of tape where blisters might happen

      That too. Arguably counts as foot hygiene.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can get them in 5 min of walking no matter what

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        > mitigate
        Anon learn to read, you fricking idiot.
        https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=mitigate

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >no matter what
        No. Only under the right conditions.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yummy

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Picrel. Does not prevent blisters, but it does make you take steps to never get another. I also read somewhere about soldiers pissing in their boots and leaving them to stand overnight to soften up the leather.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's like salting your wounds wtf

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah really. It would probably suck less to just piss on your blisters

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's the point; iodine injected straight into a blister to prevent infection. It's as much a punishment as an antiseptic measure. There was also a brand new knitting stitch invented and pushed in WW1 called the Kitchener Stitch to ensure the socks provided en masse by the public didn't wreck new recruits feet.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Mecurochrome and iodine tincture were normal shit to use on cuts, scrapes, and bruises until the 2000's. It's not that bad.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Blisters realistically can only be dealt with by foot callous.
        One of the methods I have heard of, but never tried, is hiking for a few hours in tough leather boots, and then settling your soaked feet in still warm wood ashes from a fire.

        Not 100% if the method is actually viable, but it was definitely something done by hobos and tramps during the eras of freight hopping in the Great Depression.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You know what they say, if its good enough for a homeless man in the mid 1930s then its good enough for me

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Blisters realistically can only be dealt with by foot callous
          this, back when I did landscaping and grasscutting for large commercial and residential complexes I'd walk on average 9-10 miles a day and sometimes 15 miles. once my feet got used to it after a month or so I never got any blisters.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >this, back when I did landscaping and grasscutting for large commercial and residential complexes I'd walk on average 9-10 miles a day and sometimes 15 miles. once my feet got used to it after a month or so I never got any blisters.

            You walked barefoot? Otherwise I dont understand how you could develop harder foot soles.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              oh say can you see

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Ask yourself why you can get blisters with shoes on, then you'll know why what you said is moronic.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I also read somewhere about soldiers pissing in their boots and leaving them to stand overnight to soften up the leather.

      I remember reading about that in the Horrible Histories book about WW1 when I was a kid.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Cant you just use the canteen? Or scoop some rain water from a puddle or something? Because piss sounds very unhigienic to me. Also the urea is very irritating for the skin and will turn blisters into full fledged abscesses. No wonder how many got their feet sawn off to save them from septicemy and gangrene

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I think it was the ammonia in the piss that does the softening but I have no idea how/if it works and I'm disinclined to test it with any boots I buy.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            humans don't piss ammonia, it's too toxic and needs to be expelled in a far more diluted way than our piss. fish expel ammonia since they don't have problems in diluting it. we expel urea, which is a less toxic but more energy costy form of ammonium

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I think it was the ammonia in the piss that does the softening but I have no idea how/if it works and I'm disinclined to test it with any boots I buy.

          It's the urea. It apparently works wonders but is fricking disgusting to smell afterwards. Spike Milligan's war memoirs talk of accidents where blokes forget and plunge their feet into boots full of cold piss in the morning. One of my favourite passages in his memoirs is when he's issued new boots in Italy straight out of stores dating back to WW1 which are hard as iron and he spends several hours softening them up with pounds of dubbin and a mallet.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          piss is totally sterile. it's very hygienic

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It leaves the body sterile but it sure as frick doesn't stay that way long

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It's not at all. But it does have bacteria and such that your body is more used to dealing with so it's better than dirt and other dirty water. Other peoples piss is not a good idea, unless you consistently trade bacteria with that person somehow.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >somehow
              like with piss?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I mean before the piss is neccesary.
                Infection is a mix of viral load and location. If you have no prior protection it could absoluely kill you.
                If you're all eating the same things from the same bowl, drinking from the same cups, or fricking each other, you will likely build up a resistance to the other persons bacterial or viruses and the risk is minimised, but it's still not perfect.

                My point is, piss is not sterile. It's better than spit and dirt, but not by much.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >if you're all eating the same things from the same bowl, drinking from the same cups, or fricking each other

                so the average russian conscript after 1 week?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Yes it is, but there's the possibility of contamination by urethral flora

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No it's not. It's the biggest fricking myth that refuses to die even in the medical industry.

                >A small 2014 studyTrusted Source examined 65 participants’ urine samples. Some subjects had urinary tract infection symptoms. The study found that 80 percent of the samples grew bacteria, many of which were naturally present in the bladder.

                >While some urine samples contained very low bacterial levels, the bacterial presence alone indicates that urine isn’t sterile.

                >Another small 2015 study examined samples from 52 male and female subjects. The study found that bacteria were naturally present, even in low amounts. An average of 5.8 bacterial species were found in females and 7.1 in males.

                >But don’t worry that your urine has bacteria in it. According to a 2019 research review, your bladder naturally contains a “healthy” amount of bacteria that maintain the integrity of your bladder’s lining.

                While too many bacteria could certainly be harmful, a low level of bacteria is likely protective (To yourself since you're used to it, not to others)

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Urine is not totally sterile, its only sterile in comparison to all the other bodily fluids that can come out of you. Even brand new urine that you put directly into a sterile container will have a very small amount of bacteria in it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >be me in 5th grade
      >home alone with friend for a few hours
      >fricking around outside, find skateboard in garage
      >can't skateboard to save my life
      >decide to luge down neighbors hilly driveway
      >wipe out on my third time down
      >leg runs skinremoval.exe
      >limp back to house
      >look at leg, inner half is totally raw and speckled with asphalt
      >know I need to clean it
      >find big bottle of iodine in medicine cabinet
      >pour some on leg
      >pain is at least ten times worse than skin-braking downhill
      >thatshowyouknowitsworking.bmp

      Shit fricking BURNS man. Rubbing alcohol feels way better.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Congrats, you irreparably fricked up your thyroid

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Haven’t you seen Forrest Gump

    SOCKS, cushioned sole, OD green. Try to keep your feet dry. The Mekong will eat a grunts feet right off of his legs

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not-shit boots.
    Not-shit socks (ergo not fricking antiquated bindings).
    Not-shit hygiene.
    When you get the opportunity, change out boots and socks if they get soaked.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The average soldier has done enough rucking and running that they're not likely to get blisters unless they're walking an especially ridiculous distance, have improper footwear/socks, or their feet are getting continuously wet.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is why you should train your troops before actually deploying them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Proper fitting boots and wool socks did it for me. Usually go for wide boots or about a half size bigger, just because you can get your foot in there doesn't mean it fits.

      This is why you should train your troops before actually deploying them.

      neverserveds

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Are you guys seriously this deluded? Show me a boot company that makes custom shoes made from Lasts contoured to the clients feet. I will buy them and walk in them until i get blisters. Youre all ignorant as frick

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    wool socks

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hi! I’m a US Marine who does a ton of hikes! My longest is 160km. When I get bad blisters, I use mole skin around the blister and then I walk like a moron for the rest of the hike listening to some frickwit LCpl about how much his feet hurt. I don’t give a shit LCpl, walk like a moron like the rest of us. Let me know if you have more questions!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Based learned crayon eater
      Any other wisdom you’d like to bestow?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sure! Epsom salt after a long hike is fantastic and in case it rains, make sure you have a pair of boots with proper drainage. I’ve used boots that are perfect for an arid climate when it rains and it doesn’t go over well, jungle boots are a must.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bingo. This guy knows. It happens no matter what.no matter how good the fit is. No matter what socks. No matter how tight. You get blisters, walk on your heel, get ne blisters, walk on the palm, get new blisters, walk on the edge until you break your ankle.
      Think about the layers.
      They cannot bend without sliding. Its impossible. The boot would literally have to be hinged and articulated, end of discussion.
      Lol
      Proper training
      What a croc of shit
      The harder you walk the more blisters you get, no matter what.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >did
    Blisters haven't disappeared, the only thing that's changed is the addition of mole skin and duct tape to the shit available to help prevent blisters.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Knives.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pop blister. Wash blister. b***h intermittently and double up on socks.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    tincture of benzoin

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I remember that shit!

      After a MCCRES test 25 mile hump, we had 19 and 20 year olds walking around like geriatric geezers for days.

      Corpsmen would drain the blisters, swap the barrel of the syringe with that shit, and fill up the blister void space.

      Formed a kind if chemical scab.

      Tight boots, width wise, and laced up firmly from toe to top, helped.
      What also helped, (I shit you nit, recruit), was women's nylon socks.

      We made that same face, but then our Platoon Sergeant pointed out the fact that women will wear nylons, strap any and every kind of ridiculous footwear on their feet, and then walk around all day long.

      So women's nylon socks, your wool blend issue socks over them, and well broken in but snug boots.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Black dress socks issued on your feet, cotton od green socks over the black socks. Issue boots, laced nice and tight. I have rarely had bisters in my life. That includes boy scouts and army.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          As I recall those dress socks, that's about the same thing.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They're a little heavier but not much.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    walk on gravel everyday for weeks and weeks on end to acquire the unbreakable leatherfoot. i used to be able to walk on broken glass and probably could again

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you ditch those horrific military boots some piece of shit company bribed politicians to get the no bid contract for and you buy some nice Adidas Terrex waterproof hiking boots

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I used to put adhesive bandages on spots that were about to get blisters around my rear heel and under the front of my foot. When my issued socks were bad I wore the dress uniform finer thread socks underneath my regular ones. Even if you started a small blister, those tricks usually minimized their growth so that rucks weren't making it worse, or they'd just pop from pressure, but those mitigation techniques helped enough that it didn't bother me.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Drink more water, change your socks, and Motrin
    Lemme see your dick while we're here

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No. You can’t get pregnant. Your a man. Now change your socks.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Dude, he's checking you for VD.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Roman soldiers were expected to be able to march 20 miles. They had no advanced footwear. However, they did walk a lot. And when they weren't walking they were training. And when they weren't training they were building something. The Roman soldier had hard calloused feet. The problem with blisters is too much sitting around until the mandatory road march. I don't care how much time you spend in the gym. The only way to condition your feet is to march.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      True. I worked in construction for a long time and had to wear gumboots to deal with concrete/water. When you spend a good 8 hours a day at least walking around, in boots that shift around a lot, your feet get crazy hard in a hurry.
      Excepting my arches, I could walk on thistles and barely feel a thing. I honestly found that callouses cracking was way more of a problem than blistering.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I honestly found that callouses cracking was way more of a problem than blistering.
        Nothing like ripping a sock because it got caught on a sharp piece of cracked skin.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          literally me
          the pain is real

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >get pedicure
      >fall asleep
      >wake up
      >callous gone
      >cant run now
      Wtf bros

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So basically if you get issued leather boots like I was issued in basic, you take the boots soak them in engine grease or whatever heavy grease you can find and than leave them in a vehicle engine compartment overnight. Heat of the engine + grease will soften the leather like nothing else.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Black person what the frick are you talking about? coat your boots in grease?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You wash them afterwards anon...

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This sounds fricking moronic. Don't even know what you mean by engine grease

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Lucas oil red and tacky number 5.
            Sure you could use beeswax.
            >every week forever
            Or just go full moron and jiffy lube that shit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Mechanic here. Frick that. There are far too many easy ways to break in boots than indirectly soaking my feet in grease. That's got to be bait, like the anecdote from my Korean war vet mentor who said they told boots if they got the clap to soak their wiener in kerosene. Apparently one poor frick didn't know it was a joke..

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >how to soften leather
    >piss
    >engine grease
    Stop being a fricking Black person.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. It will darken your boots but this shit works.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Literally just cheapo mineral oil works too.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Own and use a heat gun. Works great for many, many things including preheating leather before and during oiling.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Merino wool socks and foot powder. Pic rel is just an example of carelessness.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i gave myself paddy foot once by being a disgusting neet who refused to take his shoes off ever and would shower wearing the same shoes without socks for weeks at a time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >who refused to take his shoes off ever and would shower wearing the same shoes without socks for weeks at a time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >and would shower wearing the same shoes without socks for weeks at a time
      Ponder the aroma

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        ironically there was no fungus just lots and lots of blood and sloughed off skin. Some permenant scarring. I sanitized it with 99% isopropyl

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >ironically there was no fungus
          suuuure, anon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Unironically seek mental help

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you're like the living version of that one episode of malcolm in the middle kek

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      that's some drugy hobo living on the streets of LA their shit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      At best you are looking at clinical depressions, the other mental illnesses that lead to that are even worse. Fricking hell anon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Get yourself a copy of "Fixing your feet"

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It is attention to detail.
    Make sure your boots fit right and are broken in.
    Make sure your socks are of quality material correct for the temperature.
    Be smart enough to carry a spare pair of socks. Be disciplined enough to take your boots off and change your socks when you have a 10 minute or longer stop.
    Wipe your feet dry and clean when you change socks.
    Foot care IMHO is a function of self discipline.

    Don't be the dumbass to show up at a training evolution that will require you to pick em up and lay em down for 20 miles a day for multiple days in boots you bought this past weekend.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nah moleskin is for pussies. Idk who tf you're with cause that shit sounds so made up unless they started doing the damn 29 to Pendleton humps again. Best you can get is darn tough ankle sock with fox river boot socks on top. Inner sock absorbs all the friction and moisture. Change it out at stops and hang the wet ones to dry on your pack. Make sure boots actually fit and you have decent insoles. That's literally it. I ain't seen anybody use moleskin since bootcamp lmao. We'd do multi day humps but jfc man no unit I've ever seen does 160k. You'd fricking lap the perimeter of Pendleton lmao.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Thick socks and boots with a wide toe box but not oversized so your feet dont slide around.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have never had a blister in my life. Never with issue boots, never during a 20k or anything. I just wear the black and green socks they issue and make sure the boots are tight.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You slowly build up toughness over time spend walking.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Literally like that pic. Cut them, clean them and patch them up, and then continue walking.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My preferred methods
    >broken in leather boots
    >thin sweat wicking sock liner
    >thicker traditional boot sock outside of that
    >possibly some duct tape on feet in hot spots
    >change socks often
    >dry/air out feet when possible

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I walk/hike an average of 60-70 miles a week, and I never get blisters anymore. I got blisters all the time when I first started hiking a lot though. The body acclimates to walking long distances if you just walk a lot.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Carry more shit weakling

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I used baby powder to dry my socks during a march where they just got drenched in sweat.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unlike babyfeet Americans they were used to walking a lot.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >25 mile march
    >squadmate gets a blister the size of a fist
    >meanwhile my fully callused stompers are unharmed
    feels good man

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    just wear boots that fit with nice thick wool socks, it cant be that hard.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    LOTION, homie. WALK A SHITLOAD AND GET USED TO IT TILL YOUR FEET ARE HARD AS FRICKING NAILS, THEN SLAP SOME COCOA BUTTER ON THAT SHIT SO THE THICKER SKIN STAYS MOISTURIZED AND TOUGH LIKE WELL CARED FOR LEATHER. YOU CAN LITERALLY WALK UNTIL YOUR LEGS AND BACK CANNOT GO FURTHER IF YOU TOUGHEN THEM FEET AND KEEP EM HYDRATED.

    Other than that it's just good socks and well-fitting footwear.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How the frick do you get proper shoes if your feet are so wide that Extra extra wide shoes dont fit, even if you go 1-2 sizes too big. Have calluses all over my feet cause I've never had shoes that fit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >How the frick do you get proper shoes if your feet are so wide that Extra extra wide shoes dont fit, even if you go 1-2 sizes too big. Have calluses all over my feet cause I've never had shoes that fit.

      If you have short wide feet buy Sievi shoes with XL soles.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Try not being an ogre

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      have a bespoke boot made or something man

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    At the end of the day the best way to prevent your feet from getting fricked is to keep them dry, so keep a lot of extra socks on you and change them out whenever you can.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Callouses and boots and socks that fit.
    Your feet get used to it.

    t. Got blisters rucking and running my first 2 years in the Army and then never again for the next 6 years

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Prevention. Double up on socks, use anti bacterial and anti-fungal drying foot powder liberally - basic talcum powder and baby powder works too.

    If you do get blisters. Heavy gauze amd tape the frick out of it.

    My would fall apart by my toes and heels all the time.

    You can also try toughfoot its like a substance used for sled dogs feet but it will callous your feet real good

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    just wrap your feet properly and no blister...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      footwraps dont prevent blisters if your shoes are not broken in
      also, footwraps would cause additional blisters until you master them. also they need constant adjustments when used in low shoes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Doesn't seem to work that well for vatnigs stuck on the front lines with no shoes

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Silly Dimitri, conscripts cannot get blisters from boots if we do not give them boots!

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    We wore knee high pantyhose under our wool socks and threw in a little foot powder.. Also aired our feet when possible. This was during a brutally hot and wet summer basic training cycle at relaxin Jackson in 1990. Hardly a blister on the foot of a single swinging dick after that.. Several of us were multiple generation Army and quickly spooled up the guys who had no clues.. We were mostly 17 year old JROTC split options from Killeen Texas. D.I.'s were freaking out how we were all a bunch of baby E3's that had our shit together better than most E4's ready for PLDC.. We were all the kids of E7's or higher, so basic was just out childhood but with more gear.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    First time you use your leather boots. Fill them with hot water
    Wait for 15 minutes while you apply tensoplast where youve had blisters before.
    Put you feet into the shoes filled with water.
    Tighten them around your thick wool socks.
    Go ruck until most of the water is gone (takes about 3 hours)

    Then you have perfect leather boots molded to your feet.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    use superglue

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How the frick do guys in units like CAG do it? I mean, most who try out don't make it but the guys who do. How the frick can they deal with the physical toll? Do they just ruin their feet forever?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Read John Vonhof's ''Fixing Your Feet'' and Don Mann's ''Complete Guide to Adventure Racing''.

Leave a Reply to guarunteed replies Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *