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Navy_Pete said:Something of a non-sequitor, I was wearing a step counter for a while on ship and was averaging between 20-25k steps each day and doing about 40 flights of stairs. My stride is just under a meter so you can do the math, although most of the extra weight I was carrying was the 10 yards of additional fabric built into all NCDs so that they don't fit anyone properly.
I always thought people got around the boot issues with a med chits from doctors/physio.
Funny story though, when I was in ADM(Mat) years ago I was asked to be involved in a survey for the new sea boots. I went up to a room, saw a bunch of boots on the table, and was asked to rate them on appearance. ???
I asked a few questions about their funcitonality and was told it didn't matter for the survey, but did weight the ones with zippers and mesh sides heavily for completely unrelated reasons. They wanted to know what I thought about the leather grain, colour, etc, so it was kind of bizarre. (The new boots suck for wet weather, but fantastic to have kicking around for pulling on quickly during bong bongs).
Anyway, unless the requirements types put in something about that to make the dress committee happy, that would have come from the project.
That's a great example of Navy fitness, BZ! I know a few guys who are retired Navy types and they all have knee and lower limb issues from, apparently, stomping around on solid steel decks for most of their careers. I wonder how a boot can address that issue, if at all?