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All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
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Rules of thumb for parents and loved ones:
*If your sailor indicates to you they can't tell you something, believe them. Don't try to coax them into telling.
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Comment by mama bear on October 29, 2011 at 5:57pm
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wishing my daughter was here been baking cookies all afternoon for a bake sale that my son is involved with. She really had the nack for baking and he doesn't. five dozen of cookies is way to much for me to but we have got them done with only a few minor problems. I don't understand how he gets rope into these things.
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Thanks for all the information,I will pass it on to her
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on October 28, 2011 at 1:55am
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My husband did in AF basic! It did!
I asked my son too. I asked if they taught him how to shine his boots and he said "kinda"...they were on their own! He puts polish all over the boot and then uses hot water with the cotton t-shirt wrapped around the finger . Didn't always have hot water in BC so cold worked but MORE labor! So he DOES put the polish on first and then goes through the labor. That is one thing he agreed with is that it is laborious process if you want a shine!
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Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on October 27, 2011 at 8:07pm
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I don't know how they did their boots in boot camp but he wrote home and said he could see himself in them. I then asked him if he could bounce a quarter off his bed and he replied "no but it's tight". I wondered if he actually tried it.
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Too funny...huh Terry?!
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FIRETEAMLEADERWIFE: Feel like I could shine my shoes now! Great instructions, I agree if she can have someone show her the heating method that would be best the first time. My son did have to buy room deoderizers for his room because he said it makes the room smell. I think he said he uses both heating methods but that you do have to be very careful not to dry out the boot
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I just talked to my husband about the lighter thing Terry, and Mama Bear, as I remember him doing something like that.
Two ways for that: You can rub the polish in and heat the boot (not recommended if you don't know what you are doing you'll ruin them; hubby doesn't do that anymore) and the other is to heat the top layer of the polish with the lighter. This liquefies it a bit. Again, it's better to learn it from someone who knows how. You could separate the oil from the wax which won't work.
Most boots do not have a shine on them when they are brand new...some are harder to get a shine on...my husband said his Danners were really hard to do, but he did eventually get a shine. Many coats with LOTS of elbow grease. I asked him how many coats to get that great shine and he said eight! Might be a bit easier with different boots.
The reason a polish with wax and oil is put on is that you are filling the pores of the leather. The base coat is important and you won't even get that great of a shine with that.
They would heat the top layer of polish, get a cotton t-shirt, and water. You wrap the t-shirt around your finger, dab in the water, get some polish and start rubbing in small circles. Rub and rub and rub. Finish up with the brush and cloth rubbing it in, do the other boot and start over. When they stopped heating up the wax first, what they did instead was rub a layer in and then set them in the sun, rub a layer in back in the sun. Same finishing process. The coats don't hurt them because you are filling the pores. The heat from the sun, brushing and buffing plus the chemical reaction all starts to bring that glossy shine. It's a laborious process. I think once the shine is on the heating of the polish is not as important. He's old school but still shines his boots as he is still in the military! He likes Angeles polish better than Kiwi.
This is the Angeles polish.
http://www.shoeshineexpress.com/polishangelus.asp
I know it sounds funny talking about polishing boots...but it's real important. I have watched my hubby do it, sat and chatted with him while he rubbed in little circles and have seen the finished product sitting on my kitchen table in the morning on some paper bags!
I think the small circles and elbow grease are important rather than rubbing large amounts on. The polish itself doesn't give the shine it's the whole process.
Mama Bear, hopefully she can find someone who can really walk her through the process.
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There is something the guys do with a lighter....heating up the stuff they use to shine there boots or heating the boot after the wax is on....maybe someone at her A school can tell her because I am not clear on how it is done. Tell her to look for the Sailor with the best shine on their boots and ask them for help!
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well either she miss that information or she has forgot it already because she doesn't seem to be able to tell me if I can visit her before graduation or if she gets to come home after graduation for a few days, or how she is transport to her next desination. She is wearing civilian clothes I know and has been able to go off base for activities. Also she is having trouble keeping her boots shine to their liking any ideas would be welcome the officers have gave her a couple which she has tried but the next officer doesn't like that shine either. She said something that she thinks her boots might be made from something else than most people there. Just wondering if anyone else has had that problem
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Oh goodness wearing there own civilian clothes is such a great thing to them!!! Not to have to be in uniform all the time. Usually phasing up allows them to go off base either for a day or higher phases they get weekend leave and can sometimes drive so that they can actually go somewhere. Our base allows a 300 mile radius so they can go see a lot of California if they rent a car or have their own. It all depends on the base rules and your Sailor will be know those rules within the first week
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