Originally Posted by C/2nd Lt Robot

That's happened to me, but that's to be expected seeing we worked 18-20 hours in the sun over the course of two days (for my city's Air Show. National Blue Beret is a different story). But it took me maybe 5-6 minutes to polish it off both boots.

Robot you still a C/2d Lt?

Nope, I was promoted to C/1st Lt last week. Go me!

Sweet, My Cadet Commander is a C/2D Lt. and whenever we ask him how long he's been a 2nd Lt. he say" Too long"...lol He'll be promoting soon tho.

Originally Posted by C/2nd Lt Robot

Nope, I was promoted to C/1st Lt last week. Go me!

Congratulations, Robot. Moving up in the world.

Lol, the longest I've ever been in one grade (not achievement) is Cadet Chief Master Sergeant. Technically it was from 22 May 05 to 31 Mar 06. I'm planning on passing the Public Affairs Officer Achievement next week, waiting the darn 2 months after that to send in my Earhart and be Captain! woot! But alas, I now have to wait until Jan/Feb to get there because of the new regs! But thats besides the point, I went to my recruiters and they told me that I qual for aviation (Army) so I may not have much longer as a cadet (but at least until Jan 2008.) which almost gives me enough time for Spaatz...we will see...

The earliest I could possibly get the award is in Mar/May 2006 so I may stay for the whole year, of school, but who knows...

P.S. Franzz what are you now?

I'm a C/Sra.....I need to pass CPFT....Im fat lol

Alright. This section is for parade gloss convos. Let's try to get back on track with that.

Best thing I find for shoes.

Base layers of standard black Kiwi boot polish.

Then when you've worked up the base and got a reasonable shine switch to kiki black parade gloss, also applying a layer of Kiwi Tan polish every 5 layers or so.

The black polish is great for a solid shine, the parade gloss gives it that extra bit of shine making them look like glass and the tan helps to give a deeper shine instead of it just looking like its a thin layer of shine.

And yes there is a difference, if you have a badass sgt then he should be able to tell

If used right it is great on shoes.

At LDAC resently, my platoon bombed the khaki inspection on shoes, really blew the shining off. All the razor creases in the world and all the shiney brass in the world doesn't save a bad shoe shine, which for me was all Kiwi black.

That night for inspection in our summer blues, we had about 3 hours (if we hoped to sleep more than a half hour) to get all of our shoes sqaured away.

I learned that if you want all your cadets to have a awsome mirror shine, get them all to shine their shoes the exact same way, with the exact same polish. We used Kiwi black, and black parade gloss(a thin coatof parade gloss on top of the black under coat on the toe only), unfortunatly we had not other choice but to melt it, it drys it on but delpetes the natural qualities of the polish wax, it makes them look like shiney black mirrors but it will only last about a week, quick fix that sucked, considering I strip polish the old fashion way.