This was just in the Army Times. The US Army has ordered about 6,000 Danner Mountain boots. These are different than the boots the USMC has ordered from Danner. I was not able to find the exact boots the Army ordered, but they look very similar to the Danner hiking boot pictured below. The article said it was a short term solution to how the mountains of Afghanistan tear up boots until a new boot can be decided upon

Mountain Warfare school itself reduced the life span of our boots drastically. I can only imagine how bad the real thing would be on any pair of boots.