Airborne Forces way of lacing Boots

HCR · Post by **HCR** » Thu 29 Jan, 2009 7:28 pm

Ref those zip things that go in your boots. Every NAAFI Ive ever been to sells them in the BCB section. Yet Ive never ever EVER seen anyone wear them. Or have the balls too. They must be making loss there

sportbilly42 · Post by **sportbilly42** » Thu 29 Jan, 2009 9:07 pm

Big deal... I wore 'em on ops and exercise (not on barracks) for many a year and lived to tell the tale. Must have big balls I s'pose....

Problem with having mangled feet which went borderline 'immersion foot' at the drop of a hat (sweaty foot problem which needed plenty of TLC to ensure it didn't become a disabler) I found them useful to unzip, pop off, sort out foot, fresh socks on, zip back up ... all in less the time it took to unlace your standard laced boot (especially if it was middle of winter, boots thick with mud, fingers frozen solid and all the time you're thinking "Have I got time to sort my feet out and lace my bleedin' boots back up again before we get bumped?")

HCR · Post by **HCR** » Fri 30 Jan, 2009 5:26 pm

FAIR ONE

Fusilier · Post by **Fusilier** » Sun 01 Feb, 2009 7:40 pm

As for those zip things that go in your boots, no one in Para Regt would dare be seen with them, they are howling hat kit!!

Agree about been able to take off your boots for fresh socks and power etc.

Must be hats are just more particle, after all only the really hard men like having wet feet for days.

Greenronnie · Post by **Greenronnie** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 9:43 am

Fusilier wrote:
As for those zip things that go in your boots, no one in Para Regt would dare be seen with them, they are howling hat kit!!

Agree about been able to take off your boots for fresh socks and power etc.

Must be hats are just more particle, after all only the really hard men like having wet feet for days.

Yeah the hats must be more particle(?). And taking your boots off for fresh socks and power(?). And they reckon Para regt are solid!

So I take it because a guy can be bothered to lace his boots up instead of having a gay pair of zips in, that he's just going to mong it and not care for his feet for days on end then? get your head down.

Fusilier · Post by **Fusilier** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 10:15 am

Yeah the hats must be more particle(?).

Meant practical sorry, that’s why I'm a chemical operator for an oil company and not an English teacher.

So I take it because a guy can be bothered to lace his boots up instead of having a gay pair of zips in, that he's just going to mong it and not care for his feet for days on end then? get your head down.

Nope, never said could not be bothered just don’t see the need to make life hard work. The other poster was referring to easy and speed, nothing to do with either looking after or not looking after your feet. Remember being on exercise in Germany with a few young Toms who thought the sleeping mat or ground pad was for girls. No problem boys as I had a lovely sleep while they complained all the next day about how little they got and how bad they felt.

It's them who should have got their heads down.

Never understood the brains who though making life harder for themselves where better soldiers. Let people rough or do it their way I say, met plenty of them hard men in the cold winter weather in South Armagh, man did they impress me.

Anyway back to the laces, it's real lame sh** for show. My advise is if your knife can not cut quickly through your laces, go sharpen it or buy one of them Rambo type with the compass in the top and a sewing kit in the handle.

Right laces knife? Now where is it.

Greenronnie · Post by **Greenronnie** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 3:19 pm

Jeez, what a pedantic sod. At least you're managing to spell properly after a bit of prompting from a Para. As for making your life harder, I never thought lacing up a pair of boots was that hard really.

Fusilier · Post by **Fusilier** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 3:22 pm

Jeez, what a pedantic sod. At least you're managing to spell properly after a bit of prompting from a Para. As for making your life harder, I never thought lacing up a pair of boots was that hard really.

Wind your head in mate your be crying next, humour or banter not your strong point. I never though there was a special way to lace your boots up but then I was only a hat with spelling probleems, prooblems, prroblem, got it problems.

Greenronnie · Post by **Greenronnie** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 3:35 pm

Yeah cheers for the jokes! I see you've reverted back to your 'Johnny Aged three' English again! Fair one ref being a hat with mental and admin problems though!

Fusilier · Post by **Fusilier** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 3:40 pm

Your welcome mate, remember not to land on your head on that HALO what’s it named. Remember feet first, oh and don’t forget to count out loud.

Pedantic, is that like making a real meal out of a few spelling mistakes.

Greenronnie · Post by **Greenronnie** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 3:44 pm

No, I'll explain to you one day. And that first sentence didn't make any sense at all. Again. Keep on practising how to tie your laces, you'll get there in the end!

Fusilier · Post by **Fusilier** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 3:53 pm

No, I'll explain to you one day. And that first sentence didn't make any sense at all. Again. Keep on practising how to tie your laces, you'll get there in the end!

That’s it your getting there with the humour. See us hats can educate you after all.

I get me mum to tie my laces or me boyfriend if she’s out. Maybe they could make some slip on combat boots with left and right stamped on them to help you and your mates out.

By the way never start a sentence with and it's bad grammar, or is it gammon.

Greenronnie · Post by **Greenronnie** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 4:10 pm

Yes she probably does. More in the Gurkha style though, probably!

Fusilier · Post by **Fusilier** » Mon 02 Feb, 2009 4:50 pm

Private message.

You really are a mong!! Even for a screaming hat

Boo hoo.

You don't have to send the message privately matey. I can take criticism.
Even if I don’t value it.

That said I don’t have Down Syndrome, but you may have to check your chromosomes Ronnie.

sportbilly42 · Post by **sportbilly42** » Tue 03 Feb, 2009 9:44 am

Now I didn’t want to start a bitch slapping contest ........ all I said was I found the zip things for boots useful

They saved me TIME.

This WAS in the late 80s remember......

I probably thought they were a Gucci bit of kit.

But if in the passage of time they’ve now become ‘gay’ (as Greenronnie puts it) then they’re definitely ‘gay’. But c’mon....... I wore them with grenade ring pulls to make them ‘warry’ ffs!

As for needing to practise doing my laces up, I did find the old Boots Combat High to be a bit of a pain in the ar$e when they were really cold and wet on exercise. My sausage fingers always seemed to stop working in the cold and I turned into a two year old that wanted Velcro fastening shoes, coz laces were a bit of a bugger. Exercises in some god forsaken part of Germany were dress rehearsals for us being trampled by The Red Army and you didn’t want to be tripping up over laces when running away from that lot.

Anyway.......<thinks hard….> "Was it really so that I could get my boots off and back on again in double quick time after giving my poor feet some ‘lurve’ when out in the ulloo?"

Probably more to do with the fact that I could whip them off in the back of the panzer and jump into my maggot to push out zzzzs

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