Rubber? The shoe sole was designed to conceal the presence of the special forces in enemy territory. SOG went behind enemy lines of the vietcong for recon etc.
Etc consisted of sabotage, assassination, abduction, and other fun things.
But the boots wore out really fast, so they started to save them for special occasions after a while.
They had some pretty innovative solutions to some problems. They would replace a round randomly in a magazine with a explosive round and leave the weapon where VC would find it. A few shots and your enemy is dead,blind, or wounded. They would tack up a picture of a girl with big tits that would have writing below the picture that got smaller as it was read causing the reader to walk forward on to a landmine. Genius ideas, war is evil shit.
That landmine was specially designed to be less lethal.
It would blow your toes off so that your squad had to dedicate men and resources to evacuation and aid, thus denying those men and resources from being on the battlefield.
But the boots wore out really fast, so they started to save them for special occasions after a while.
It would blow your toes off so that your squad had to dedicate men and resources to evacuation and aid, thus denying those men and resources from being on the battlefield.