ROCKY Lightweight Commercial Military Boot

Love !!! very good quality and comfortable ! Highly recommend ! #militarylife

Who am I:230LB. 40min 5 mile. 2.5h 12 mile ruck. I like hooha things.I recommend you get different boots depending on what your task is - get the right tool for the job as they say. This is a great product for ruck marches.Background: These boots look weird and very crinkly/noisy. But didn't have a choice since I was short on the packing list and that's all the PX had in my size.BEST ACCIDENT EVER. These shoes (with a pair of good insoles - recommend Walkomfy Heavy Duty!) are better than the garmont bifida for long road marches/uniform runs. The noise goes away once you break them in. I am on my second set and not looking anywhere else.The garmont bifida probalby still wins on the rope climb or super rough hiking where grip is needed... so I have a couple of pairs of these too.Try them.

I ordered these boots at the beginning of my deployment and 4 months in they have faded, got really fuzzy and the brown on the metal around the holes for the laces has chipped away leaving a shiny metal color. I am very disappointed as I had these boots in the tan version and they were GREAT. These on the other hand are the worse pair of boots I have every brought in my 10 plus years in the Army. They are suppose to be coyote in color and they faded within the first month and now look almost as tan as my tan boots.The boots are also way too wide. This is one of my easier deployments. I'm not patrolling or hiking up and down mountains so there is no reason that the boots should have deteriorated so quickly. I have never wore them to ruck because they are too wide. Looking at the pictures you would think these boots were older than 4 months and worn on several ruck marches and patrols.

These are pretty good boots. The soles are very comfortable; literally the most comfortable military boot I've ever had! Although these are good, there are a couple things that need fixing (reason for the 3 stars).Color: I was pretty dissatisfied in the color. They have a light picture and then if you scroll down you see darker pictures of this boot. The actual color seems more of just Coyote and not Coyote Brown (compared to my other Coyote Brown boots). The Coyote brown I've had before is usually darker. Rocky has another lightweight boot in the suggestions at the bottom of this one whose actual true color is Coyote Brown. I would've ordered that one but it wasn't on Amazon at the time I got these.Laces: These laces are somewhat short. I've broken my boots in (been wearing for about 2 months now) and I still have to constantly, excessively tighten these to get them through the top eyelets of the boots all the way. This creates little room for a double knot, which is needed. I really like these boots but I may need new laces.Width: This wasn't actually bad at all. I always get wide sizes but with these the wide was actually really big. Again, not a bad thing, just got a regular size and they fit great. The toebox is also pretty wide already so I would suggest getting a regular size unless if you wear maybe an extra wide shoe or something.

I wear a size 12 wide. Usually the display model looks great and then my actual size looks like a comically stretched version of the original intent. Not with these! If anything, they make my feet look smaller. Fit us excellent - I sometimes wear a double wide but the wide was fine for me. They are light, they air puff feature certainly doesn’t feel like air conditioning but I can sense that there might be something there.

I was worried about the noise the upper part of the boot material was making when I first purchased them,(almost returned them) after weeks of use , the upper material makes a little noise (krinkle sound). I just trusted that as they got worn in they would stop making the noise... and after several weeks of significant use the noise is far less.Carefull when you first open and ensure the toe box is not misshapen, mine was, but I chose to just use them as is.when you order wide they are acutally wide, I am used to ordering wide for normal feet, these are actually wide and will be extra roomy if you have a normal width foot.I like the look of the entire boot, and was excited to find something in a size 15 which also ran true to size.The boots price point seems high, for all the competition out there at lower price points that are good builds as well. but I am happy with the look and perfromance for these several weeks.I am also the size of an NFL lineman, and they seem up to the task. (use superfeet insole, but their insole is amazing too.)UPDATED! once worn in these boots are quiet and super comfy.

The boot felt like it was the right size, but the laces were cinched completely tight together, meaning I probably needed to go down a size, but that would have put my toes too close to the front. The canvas like material on the ankles is stiff and noisy. Every step you take will sound like the ruffling of a thick canvas sheet, it might go away, eventually, but it was uncomfortable and annoying. The cushion of the sole was good and the only redeeming factor.

Wore these boots for 9 months in Afghanistan, July to April. I found them to be comfortable and they held up fine. I am still wearing them. I had a 1 K walk to and from work and some of that was rocky, muddy, snowy, or wet. In the heat they were not terribly hot. I walked through snow and puddles and my feet didn't get terribly wet. I remember being very surprised that my feet didn't get wet at times. They might not be warm enough if you spend extended time in the cold but I never had a problem. The nylon canvas did wear a hole above the ankle bone on the inside but I stuck a uniform patch inside the boot and they held together. The stitching of the suede to the nylon came apart in the back but it doesn't affect the boots at all. There is very little wear on the soles. Considering that I wore these boots every single day for nearly 300 days they are doing great and still going.