still working on my combat boots, do people generally shine just the toe and heel?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - still working on my combat boots, do people generally shine just the toe and heel?

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:04:13 AM EDT

My boots so far have been the belleville 700 and welco jungle boots. Of course on these boots you can only shine the heel and toe.

On the standard Army issue boots Do people generally just shine the toe and the heel or are you suppose to do the whole thing.

Oh yeah and the idea about melting the polish and working it in, then melting it on the boot with a torch is working really well. They are already as shiney as my bellevilles (although those were for the field w/ just a brush shine)

thanks for any help.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:12:42 AM EDT

[#1]

I`m not in the military but i wear combat boots often, and i usually just polishs the intire boot and am done with it. Sometimes i will polish the boot then dab the rag in some water and go over the heel and toe a bit with that and it makes them stand out more shiney than the rest.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:15:38 AM EDT

[#2]

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My boots so far have been the belleville 700 and welco jungle boots. Of course on these boots you can only shine the heel and toe.

On the standard Army issue boots Do people generally just shine the toe and the heel or are you suppose to do the whole thing.

Oh yeah and the idea about melting the polish and working it in, then melting it on the boot with a torch is working really well. They are already as shiney as my bellevilles (although those were for the field w/ just a brush shine)

thanks for any help.

Didn't your D.I. or drill sarge in the army show you how? If not when you get to boot camp you will learn and no cheating

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:29:33 AM EDT

[#3]

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My boots so far have been the belleville 700 and welco jungle boots. Of course on these boots you can only shine the heel and toe.

On the standard Army issue boots Do people generally just shine the toe and the heel or are you suppose to do the whole thing.

Oh yeah and the idea about melting the polish and working it in, then melting it on the boot with a torch is working really well. They are already as shiney as my bellevilles (although those were for the field w/ just a brush shine)

thanks for any help.

Didn't your D.I. or drill sarge in the army show you how? If not when you get to boot camp you will learn and no cheating

Actually, in Basic they are only requiring a brush finish on the Belleville boots, you are not supposed to shine them heavily. That and your Drill might not really know what he is talking about, but you did not hear that from me. . . .

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:30:24 AM EDT

[#4]

We used heat guns in AIT to get a Godalmighty shine. Kinda works like the torch on the boot, but more controllable. Polish on heavy, then a heat gun to melt it. At this point, some guys would dunk the boot in ice water. At any rate, after the polish cools and hardens, spit shine away. You can get the whole boot shiny like this, but the polish will crack as soon as you put the boot on. To minimize this, try to keep the polish as thin as possible.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:32:31 AM EDT

[#5]

Ok what the hell is going on in the military nowadays?

Your drill may not know?

The D.I. is God reincarnated into a man as far as I knew.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:33:18 AM EDT

[#6]

Slackers only polish the heel and toe!

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:38:25 AM EDT

[#7]

for daily wear in garrison, i just did a high buff brush shine.
in the field, i was lucky to have any polish on my boots at all, at best a good mud brushing.
For inspections/ceremonies, spit shine the heels and toes and you will be fine.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:39:40 AM EDT

[#8]

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Didn't your D.I. or drill sarge in the army show you how? If not when you get to boot camp you will learn and no cheating

I was issued the belleville 700 at Ft benning, it really only has a heel and toe. After those I went to jungle boots Never owned a pair of real army boots.

Plus people were chewed out for putting too much kiwi on their boots, they said the boots were only suppose to have a light brush shine because they were meant to breath???

I don't know probably just a excuse for another smoke session.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:41:23 AM EDT

[#9]

You shouldn't spit shine Bellevilles or anything in G-Tex in them.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:41:33 AM EDT

[#10]

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Ok what the hell is going on in the military nowadays?

Your drill may not know?

The D.I. is God reincarnated into a man as far as I knew.

By the way, when I go on base at MCRD San Diego, the marines dont even shine their boots!!!!!

They went to those cloth type that you don't shine!

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:43:14 AM EDT

[#11]

Just... why, exactly, are you supposed to shine your boots? Is it a psyops weapon, toss it into a room, blind the enemies with the glare and stun them with the smell?

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:43:50 AM EDT

[#12]

The MCCUU rough out boot, is leather just like the Bellevilles (a large portion are made by Belleville), they just are rough on the outside. Getting rid of the need to polish them.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:44:47 AM EDT

[#13]

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Just... why, exactly, are you supposed to shine your boots? Is it a psyops weapon, toss it into a room, blind the enemies with the glare and stun them with the smell?

Discipline!!!

p.s. You never shine panamas or equivalent.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:46:02 AM EDT

[#14]

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Just... why, exactly, are you supposed to shine your boots? Is it a psyops weapon, toss it into a room, blind the enemies with the glare and stun them with the smell?

That falls into, its just the way we always did it. Allot of parade ground BS goes on during peace time, thankfully during wars much of it is forgotten.

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:51:13 AM EDT

[#15]

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Just... why, exactly, are you supposed to shine your boots? Is it a psyops weapon, toss it into a room, blind the enemies with the glare and stun them with the smell?

It looks really good, and a set of spit shinned ripple toe, green, jungle boots really gets the girls wet!

Posted: 9/5/2004 10:52:39 AM EDT

[#16]

shine the whole boot. thank god in a year or 3 when we go to the new uniforms we'll have rough boots like the marines.

Posted: 9/5/2004 11:02:19 AM EDT

[#17]

Hey good job on getting the shine! Shine the whole boot! You may get ribbed a little from the 10% but what go they know. Take care. Coondog

Posted: 9/5/2004 12:00:46 PM EDT

[#18]

Now a days your not allowed to spitshine boots in basic or ait. It was put out by the TRADOC General not to. One of the main reasons I heard was because the new issue boots are gortex and it'll mess up the water proofing, atleast thats what I've heard.

Posted: 9/5/2004 12:35:50 PM EDT

[#19]

WTF no spit shine at all

Do you still polish your belt buckles?

Posted: 9/5/2004 12:43:20 PM EDT

[#20]

we polished the entire boot, BUT, the heel and toe were the only parts that would really take a MIRROR shine.

I had 2 classes of boots when i was in. Work boots that were shined without a high polish but in good order and Inspection boots. The inspection boots got painted. The PX used to sell a leather high gloss PAINT for boots. it worked ok but would peel off after a day or 2 of wear. we just painted them and left them by the bunk never to be worn.

mike

Posted: 9/5/2004 1:08:40 PM EDT

[#21]

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Just... why, exactly, are you supposed to shine your boots? Is it a psyops weapon, toss it into a room, blind the enemies with the glare and stun them with the smell?

It looks really good, and a set of spit shinned ripple toe, green, jungle boots really gets the girls wet!

YEP! they will be dripping and begging for it! LOL does anyone have any experience of getting some loving for being in the service. In some places the military isn't like that much Cough Cough liberal CA!