Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

The places around the world my boots have taken me.
Yes, I still have my all black leather boots that I wore with my class A uniform as well.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I wore mine out fifty years ago.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

I had several pairs and several types depending on the assignment. These shown are about 40 years old.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

I gave my jump boots to Goodwill when I realized that I would not be using them again.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

I guess I see them as a part of my uniform and could not fathom them being disgraced/dishonored for all they did with me. I would burn them first.
But to each their own.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

By the time our unit got jungle boots issued my black leather ones were a lost cause due to dampness and heat in Nam.

The new pair of jungle boots they gave me to wear when flying home got regular use going to the mountains for photography, riding a motorcycle, and finally died going up and down volcanos in SW Mexico with a Field School in geography and anthropology. Obsidian does a number on footwear. It cut right through the heavy soles and the punji plate then flexed enough it broke in half. Then the boots "clicked" as I walked. Good thing for me the plate broke in half just a couple of days before we were done climbing around on volcanoes. I could wear regular shoes everywhere else we went.

I do have a pair of the jungle boots I bought at a Police Supply store with a zipper up the outside. I got those for working around trains and streetcars at the Railway Museum I belong to. They are still in the closet even though I stopped operating stuff and went over to being a Conductor and Announcer several years ago. I will never wear that pair out, I haven't even been to the museum since Covid-19 hit (wife is a retired Surgical Nurse and frowns on me being around crowds of strangers these days).

tramsey Loc: Texas

Since I was an MP I had paratrooper boots with white laces, laced a certain way. When I got home I gave them to the American Legion. A few days later I saw a homeless vet with them.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Dannj

My boots are the only part of my uniforms that still fit.

buckwheat Loc: Clarkdale, AZ and Belen NM

After I shot the Bob Hope show, a guy I knew in supply wanted to trade 1000 Darvon pills for one picture of Ann Margaret. I had no use for 1000 Darvon, so in exchange for about a dozen photos I got 2 new pair of jungle boots. They lasted well into my civilian life, but, alas, my feet changed and I couldn't wear them anymore.

Zooman 1

Army boots always brings me back to basic where I was issued 2 pair of soft toed brown boots and 2 bottles of black shoe dye!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Officially the transition from brown to black was 1957 but it was during Vietnam before they used up all the brown boots from the warehouses and contracts. And knowing the military there is probably a stash of brown boots sitting somewhere in one or more warehouses.

Several years ago I read about a fairly small old Army warehouse somewhere that hadn't been opened in the memory of anyone and they had no record of what was in it. For some reason (Maybe going to knock it down for new construction?) they opened it and found it was full of World War I era "Liberty" aircraft engines and parts that should have been used or sold as surplus in the 1920s.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

My original pair of jungle boots that I brought back are long gone, but I would like to have another pair for occasional use. Anyone know a source for the genuine article? None of the local Army surplus stores in the Ft. Bragg area have them anymore.

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

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