right over left? left over right?

MombaBomba said:
The military really does specify how to lace boots and tie them? Up until this thread, I had no idea the military regulated to that level.
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The Navy does. Their uniform instruction for shoes says "lace shoes from inside out through all eyelets and tie."

The only time I see that getting brought out is at some disciplinary review when they really want to bust your chops OR when someone gives me grief about something trivial and I want to be passive aggressive :)

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Ahhh ... the thread that won't die. :cool:

Apparently they do. I eventually googled it and found several Youtube vidoes on how to properly lace AF boots, shoes, tennis shoes, etc. Seriously!
Now do they care at USAFA? I dunno. DH said they do because they need to be "uniform." (see what he did there?)

In any case, it's start with over, then left over right with the toes of the shoe pointing away from you. Tie little knots near the plastic ends so the laces don't get pulled out.

Interesting, huh?
 
When I went through the Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Fort George G. Meade, Md., there was a photo of a newscast with an Air Force colonel or lieutenant colonel who had one of his shoulder boards (not sure if the Air Force calls them shoulder boards, the rank devices on the light blue shirts) backwards. Usually it would be easy to miss, but the Air Force has a small stripe at the end of the device, so you can tell which way it's pointed.

You're more likely to get dinged for uniform discrepancies at an academy, with the hope that it becomes so second nature when you get out in the bigger service, wearing the uniform is natural. That means, of course, hitting you on the details of those uniforms when you're new.
 
My DH explained why the laces thing is no big deal:

... they will also be made (not officially) to know a whole bunch of junk, like the joke of number of spires on the chapel (17, one for each disciple and one for each chief of staff – unofficially of course) or the very trick question of how many seats does the Fairchild SR-51 have (SR-51 is a lecture hall in Fairchild Hall, not an aircraft by Fairchild Republic)

At some point, all sorts of inanities will be asked, and the answer will always be wrong, giving the upperclassmen the opportunity to make corrections. I guessed left over right when asked, and luckily got it right. Sometimes you win, most times you lose.

You could also mention that they will all be found to have problems daily. Our room was perfect upon inspection, so we got dinged for cleanser on the top of our can of Comet cleanser.

That’s why the shoelaces thing was so very unimportant to me. And as for memorization, AF song and 7 basic responses just to make Day 1 easier. After that, they’ll all be wrong daily, and hourly. No one will be perfect, since they’ll pull out the SR-51 question if they’re getting too much correct.
 
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