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Theresa Campbell
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My normal uniform consisted of skirt, blouse and court shoes.

The first time I had to wear ’boots’ was in Germany to go on exercise but alas no DMS boots would fit a size 4 foot!!

Cadet boots had to be sent from the UK and much to the amusment of everyone else I turned into a real ’Pte Benjamin’ who only wore cam cream because the Sgt told me it was made by Max Factor ......doh !!!

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27/03/2005 14:35:22

Graham Scott
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Yes - Vaseline (TM).
Mind you, we aircraft tradesmen had special ones with steel toecaps and suckers on the sole. You could walk up the wing of an aircraft without falling off (suck, squelch, suck), or drop part of an aircraft on your foot without breaking either your toes or a valuable bit of aircraft!
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28/03/2005 02:03:02

Philip Lovell
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I remember burning off the ’nobbly bits’ with the end of a spoon, heated on the stove in the middle of the billet. Then applying orange peel, lots of spit and polish and buffing with clean cloth. Result, a pair of boots you could see your reflection in.

Oh, the happy hours I spent doing that, when I could have been reading a good book !

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Rocky (ex very smart airman !)

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28/03/2005 11:45:55

steve barr
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a mate once told me this stroy that when he was in the Guards or something like that, they had to burn down thier boots and becasue he could’nt be arsed to pack them out with newspaper he worn them and then with a blow torch he set about them. to cut a long stry short he ended up in hospital.

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28/03/2005 23:47:56

Graham McDonough
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aaahhhh, the joys of d.m.s. boots. I actually thought they were a good bit of kit.
dunno what went wrong with them in the Falklands. Perhaps the quality of the product went down the drain. I remember spending long hours burning them down with the back of somebody else,s spoon, using ONLY KIWI polish. Then building them up to a mega shine, ready for duty as the Battalion Orderly Corporal, only for some mindless tw*t to scuff them just before Razzmans parade.
While we are on the subject of boots, does anybody remember "Boots Cold Wet Weather[C.W.W.]" nicknamed Boots Cobbly Wobbly
[I can smell that polish burning]
P.S. we used to soften them by widdling on them.

Live long. "Steady the Buffs" Graham McDonough.

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29/03/2005 18:21:30

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