Spit Shined Boots and Boondockers
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Yes I remember those days. Boot camp MCRDSD 1959. Being the only Japanese American recruit in boot camp, you can imagine what it was like. Yes I did got thumped by a Jr DI, because his older brother was KIA on Iwo Jima. The senior DI took care of him prior to graduation. My boot and boondockers , dress shoes were always shining When I joined my battalion after bootcamp and ITR, my boots and boondockers were the brightest you ever saw. My platoon sargeant and platoon commander always asked me how I did it. Just told them, spit/polish and a good polish rag. Was like that for 10 years.
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still spit shine boots today – get compliments too@! Semper Fi
Jump Boots???? (wore them too because they shined up real nice)…got lectured and threatened in A-school in Memphis because a Gunny insisted they were UNAUTHORIZED, (as I never went to jump school). Had I not graduated at the top of my class, I probably would have ended up in outland Adak, AK….Never got flak for it in the grunts, only in the wing…..
Spit shine followed me. I always had the shineyest shoes in the office. You can’t break old habits.
I used to spit shine my ex’s boots lol worked great.