Quote Originally Posted by Wyatt View Post
Reading over your tracking and patrolling document, it mentions a lack of hygiene items and specifically sock/ extra clothes. Was cellulitis or foot problems an issue during patrolling? […] Interesting since it seems that much of what Ive ben taught is almost 180* different... Possibly environment related, jungle vs desert/mountains...
I suspect what you are being taught about foot hygiene has to do with the introduction of waterproof/breathable fabrics. It's great to have Gore-Tex as an option and it does have its place (one of those places is not the jungle! or even imo for three season wear in the Southeast) but if you're wearing a pair of boots with a Gore-Tex liner and you don't do (at least) a daily change into dry socks foot problems are a question of when not if. It would be more honest to call waterproof/breathable fabrics "waterproof/breathable-to-a-point fabrics" since there is a maximum amount of vapor which can escape at any given time -- I hope you never have the experience of having to wade across a stream and spending the rest of the day with two buckets tied to your feet -- and because liquid does begin to penetrate the fabric from the outside if the pressure differential reaches a certain point (maintaining the DWR helps a lot there).