>>2464324You get this issue when logistics issues things on a numerical basis that aren't strictly identical.
I don't know about the US but often you'll have magazines which constantly jam or only fit some guns but not others, if you get a mag that feeds reliably into your gun you guard it carefully, conceal it from other soldiers and carry it for years.
You've got that base camp stove issue where one guy is in such desperate need he'll rob someone else.
Then you've got the issuance issue where logistics doesn't fully appreciate how things like boots and mags can't be issued numerically.
They send ten pairs of boots for ten men, and if there's a spare it's unlikely to fit the guy who breaks his first pair.
Stealing boots off dead people is a military tradition, I've never seen boots left at a grave. Maybe a helmet, maybe alcohol or sentimental offerings- never boots.
Another issue is the political difficult in issuing good boots to forward infantry but lesser quality boots to rear eshelon or fucking office staff.
Typically everyone has to get the same, those physically closest to supply get the good shit and high ranking officers in the rear will pilfer shit going to forward elements.
Not even the US army could get good boots to the front, many armies couldn't get a single pair of good boots to the front.
Often you have to rotate a unit simply because how confounding it is to get them equipment in the supply train.
