{"id":68897,"date":"2023-09-06T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=68897"},"modified":"2023-09-06T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T10:30:25","slug":"know-your-military-history-jump-boots-the-airborne-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/know-your-military-history-jump-boots-the-airborne-trademark\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Military History: Jump Boots \u2013 the Airborne Trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68898 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/boot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"single-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com\/2023\/09\/04\/jump-boots-the-airborne-trademark-2\/\">Jump Boots \u2013 the Airborne\u00a0Trademark<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>{If you are a fan of WW2 Military History, <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com\/\">Pacific Paratrooper<\/a> is one of the BEST Blogs around! Subscribe Today!}<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Distinctive as Airborne itself, so are the dark, glistening jump boots of a paratrooper.\u00a0 Troopers glory in their significance and only they know the secret pride when they glance down at their boots, polished like glass, and see in them the reflected valorous traditions of\u00a0<strong>AIRBORNE.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>Jump boots belong to the paratroopers!\u00a0 They are as distinctive as the airborne itself.\u00a0 Others in the armed forces may wear them, but the dark glistening boots are the original trademark of the swaggering soldiers-of-the-sky.<\/h2>\n<h2>At Fort Campbell, as with other installations were paratroopers are stationed, it is the jumpers\u2019 delight to \u201cfall out\u201d each morning with starched fatigues, blocked hat and the mirrored footwear.<\/h2>\n<h2>This is true of the 508th Airborne Regimental Combat team.\u00a0 The doughty Red Devils flash all the dash and verve that marked the paratroopers of yesterday.\u00a0 Very early paratroopers wore ordinary army shoes and some even used tennis shoes.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com\/2023\/09\/04\/jump-boots-the-airborne-trademark-2\/\">RTWT.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68899 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PIR-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PIR-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PIR-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PIR-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PIR-1536x868.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PIR-2048x1158.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PIR-850x481.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jump Boots \u2013 the Airborne\u00a0Trademark &nbsp; {If you are a fan of WW2 Military History, Pacific Paratrooper is one of the BEST Blogs around! Subscribe Today!} &nbsp; Distinctive as Airborne itself, so are the dark, glistening jump boots of a paratrooper.\u00a0 Troopers glory in their significance and only they know the secret pride when they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5773,5523,6789,1286,1898,1899],"tags":[16421,3579,763,6247,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68901,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68897\/revisions\/68901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}