Yes Kilted Soldier. I viewed a movie depicting this practice. No remember the name.
 
Hope they showed Scottish soldiers properly stripped naked when lying dead outside the QM s tent :-)
 
Sorry to ruin the romance of military boots, but government boots are auctioned off to the highest bidder. As a military boot collector (5000+pairs), I find the boots are surveyed by their owners for a number of reasons- mostly because they don't fit. Sometimes you find tags with the owner's name and the reason for the exchange. I do have boots of soldiers who I have known and who have died. I keep them in a shrine to that person. Perhaps you have seen my group- Heroes and Boots? Sometimes the boots don't match and the resaler has to match up one with another. One scene where the disposed boots were tossed out a window reminded me of a concentration camp. Let's face it, if the U.S. leaves tanks, and other heavy expensive equipment, why would they bother with a pair of boots.-On the other hand, I do have a WWII german helmut, bullet holes and blood- which I checked out at a blood center. BUT, that's another story.
 
Would be hot too see pics of those enshrined combat boots of yours ivanhowe!
 
got me 2 pair of combat boots at a second hand shop...like to imagine that the soldiers who wore them were hanged from a tree then found by their mates...dead and swinging
 
well i happen to know personally some very high rank military
people and they have told me otherwise,
they are tied together by the laces and thrown into bins
and are distributed to surplus throughout the US.
 
Love to see you get off sniffin' the boots as I enjoy sniffin' the warm sneakers from your feet .. then your socks ... then your feet and see who shoots first and seeing yours will be freshly, warm and sweaty I guarantee me!
 
I like the tribute that the US military guys pay to their fallen comrades: boots, rifle and helmet arranged in a memorial, the dead stud's dog tags hanging from the rifle. I like to imagine the boots being pulled off the casualty before he is bagged for shipment, the laces tied together. It's easier to get his feet and legs into the body bag if his boots have been removed. His dog tags are jerked off his chest, one of them inserted between his teeth so that it is lodged there when his jaw is hammered shut. Another comrade, who could be a horny aficionado of Cute Dead Guys, might jerk a wad off into one of the KIA's boots. When his boots end up in the military surplus store, their odor will be enhanced with traces of testosterone. There is a practice from "hot zone" combat during the Vietnam War that always turns me on: prior to a battle in which high casualties were expected, the men were instructed to remove one of their dog tags and put into one of their boots. It would make it easier for the graves registrars to identify them after they became dead meat.
KIA tribute Iraq_helmet_rifle_tags_gd.jpg
helmet rifle boots tribute USMC.jpg
 
well i happen to know personally some very high rank military
people and they have told me otherwise,
they are tied together by the laces and thrown into bins
and are distributed to surplus throughout the US.

I STILL stand by this former comment and have verified it AGAIN through my military contacts.
 
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