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Jungle warfare specialized boots
Jungle boots are a type of combat boot designed for use in jungle warfare or in hot, wet, and humid environments where a standard leather combat boot would be uncomfortable or unsuitable to wear. Jungle boots have vent holes in the instep and sometimes a canvas upper to aid in ventilation and drainage of moisture.

The use of "jungle" or "hot weather" boots predates World War II, when small units of U. S. soldiers in Panama were issued rubber soled, canvas upper boots for testing. Developed in conjunction with the U. S. Rubber Company, a pair of jungle boots weighed approximately three pounds. Adopted in 1942, the design of the jungle boot was based on the idea that no boot could possibly keep out water and still provide sufficient ventilation to the feet in a jungle or swamp environment. The Saran ventilating insoles trapped air which was circulated throughout the interior of the boot during the act of walking; moist interior air was exchanged for outside air via the boot's water drain eyelets. the 1st Air Commando Group, and the Mars Task Force (5332nd Brigade, Provisional). This style footwear wore faster than the standard Army Type II field shoes, so they were often carried as a back up footwear for use in soft mud. After the conclusion of World War II, American interest in jungle equipment lay dormant until their next tropical engagement in 1965, so an improved jungle boot used Dobie's Panama sole.

The French rubber/canvas jungle boots were manufactured by Palladium during the First Indochina War. Variants were available during the Algerian War.

In the early years of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, some U. S. Army soldiers were issued+ the 'M 1945 Tropical Combat Boot'. In the newly developed improved footwear, the upper was cotton, leather comprised the toe and heel, with improved nylon reinforcements around the throat. Water drains in the form of screened eyelets in the canvas top near the bottom were intended to drain moist mud from the inside of the boot using a hastily modified version of the Bernoulli Principle. Later jungle boots used nylon/canvas uppers instead of cotton duck. The footwear received improvements, including Dobie's mud clearing outsole and nylon webbing reinforcement on the uppers. This included changes in rubber sole composition (reducing the janitorial load by reducing the tell tale 'marking' of linoleum floors), and use of waterproof Poron linings instead of the left overs from 1942 Saran ventilating in soles. British forces use Saran insoles in their footwear because they like its insulating properties. Increasing use of the jungle boot as a general purpose combat boot wrought further improvements. To use up left over stock, the issue boot's Dobie sole reverted to a Vibram sole in the 1980s. Other improvements were made to lower the costs to tax payers. By the late 1980s, thousands of incidents of field destruction were reported by troopers, including heel blowouts and loss of water drains (screened eyelets) from poor materials/poor quality control. Today, Altama Footwear and Wellco Footwear are two American manufacturers of American military jungle footwear. Altama began manufacturing boots for the military near the end of American involvement in Vietnam, in 1969, supplying the military with footwear. Wellco gained the first tax payers contract for boots in 1965. These companies manufacture footwear with waterproof insoles and Vibram or Dobie outsoles with green cotton/nylon uppers and conventional eyelets, and manufacture an improved version with a black Cordura upper and a Speedlace and eyelet lacing system. Atalaia manufactures jungle footwear for the Brazilian Army. McRae boots of North Carolina produces the original green cotton boot and the black nylon boot in the US. In 2005, the United States Marine Corps retired the black jungle boots from front line military service, and replaced them with two versions of a new tan rough out leather combat boot. One version, called the Temperate or Infantry Combat Boot, has an inner waterproof Gore Tex lining. The Temperate boot is an effort to keep moisture out of the boot because, after the interior is wet, moisture tends to remain there. The lining limits air exchange, limiting its use to environments with temperatures of 98°F or less. Another version, the Hot Weather Boot, eliminates the lining while retaining the vents. The US Army and US Air Force removed the black jungle boot from frontline service, swapping them for suede desert style boots after the US Army adopted the Army Combat Uniform and the US Air Force adopted the Airman Battle Uniform. Some government agencies outside the United States issue US made jungle boots to their troopers. One example is in Afghanistan, with soldiers of the former Afghan National Army wearing black jungle boots with American made combat uniforms.