[Jon Skagfeld]

I was always taught, and always used, ladder lacing, for the aforementioned medical reasons for a foot injury, i.e., to run a bayonet up the ladder in order to remove the boot.

Yet, even today, official Dress Regulation charts, hung in many Military Establishments, show the cross-over lacing method of lacing, and as a footnote, explain that this cross-over method is used in order to facilitate boot removal in the event of a foot injury!!!!!

With the cross-over lacing method, a medic would be hacking away for quite a while, trying to cut each individual cross-over lace pattern.

I (stubbornly, I guess) refused to consider anything else but ladder lacing for any type of footwear.