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New Bates boots for US military

31/10/2007

Bates Footwear, a division of Wolverine World Wide Inc., is to manufacture 10,000 pairs of Tora Bora alpine combat boots under a new $2.2 million government contract with the US Special Operations Command.

The new technical boot has been specifically engineered for soldiers operating in mountain warfare conditions and will be made in the US.

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