They're On A Permanent Route March - Army Tests Equipment For Arctic And Tropics -- One inspections where ruined boots ***** don't bring a 'charge'. An ordnance Crops officer inspects boots after most of the test course of 350 miles has been covered at the Boot track at Hoath Lane, Gillingham, near Chatham, Kent. Most of the boots have come through the test virtually *****. Thirty men with the Army's least enviable job are on a 'permanent' route march at the British Army's ***** test Center near this Kentish naval base. April 7, 1948.