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War in the Desert
Nov 19 2:43 pm
Keeping out the heat BY JULY 1990, times were tough for McRae Industries. The Cold War was over, military spending was down, and Defense Department demand for combat boots had ground to a halt. To weather the financial storm, company founder and CEO Branson McRae laid off nearly half of the company’s 287-person workforce and […]
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Boots on the Ground
Oct 22 4:51 pm
Crafting combat footwear for the Vietnam War >American troops in the Vietnam War needed a better combat boot. McRae Footwear answered the call, manufacturing durable jungle boots for the harshest fighting conditions. THE YEAR WAS 1967, and the Vietnam War raged on. With half a million American troops in South Vietnam, the U.S. was at […]
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