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How long do soldiers have to walk around to get trench foot?

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How long do soldiers have to walk around to get trench foot?

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Trench foot is caused not by walking around but by having wet feet. The bottom of the trenches were usually deep mud – deep enough to get inside their boots. So soldiers had wet feet in boots they could not change for days on end.