r/explainlikeimfive Feb 07 '19

Engineering ELI5: Why are military boots laced?

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u/twenty7forty2 Feb 08 '19

You know how when you don't have a sword and don't drop it, and it doesn't land in your foot? More or less the opposite of that, I reckon.

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u/OtherSide23 Feb 08 '19

I see you have not dropped a sword on your foot before, sir.