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Early First Contract 1991 Wellco Desert Boot Brown Sole Desert Storm Oldgen For Sale
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Early First Contract 1991 Wellco Desert Boot Brown Sole Desert Storm Oldgen:
$89.00
Original pair of the very first issue US military desert boots from the Gulf War. Dated January of 1991, this pair is from the first shipment of 5000 boots on January 15 1991, those boots had the darker brown soles with uneven color because the rubber formula to make tan soles had not been perfected and approved yet and brown dye was actually applied to the soles to make them brown because the rubber had uneven color and was too lightly shaded otherwise. This practice quickly ended as the rubber formula for tan soles was perfected and approved by the end of that same month when production was approved by many other makers.Size 8.5R.Unworn, but they do have black marks on them where they were stuffed into a duffle bag for decades with a pair of black boots and the polish rubbed off. I have made no attempt to clean this off, I will leave the decision if and how to do so for the new owner so they can decide how best to preserve them.These came from a veteran who said they were issued the boots the day before the move north for the ground campaign started, but he didn\'t want to be breaking in a new pair of boots in combat so tossed them in his duffle bag, then he missed the coming home ceremony so wasn\'t ordered to wear them for it like most in his unit so they just sat in his bag.
Definitely a unique pieceof history, both of the Gulf War and unique as the first example of a modern desert combat booth issued to US forces.Be sure to check my other listings for more items you will also like, and click on the \"Save Seller\" button to get first updates on all my future listings!
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