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  • Let me break that down for you, starting at the bottom and working up: White socks covered by a pair of black socks, black boots (weight approximately that of a dead, wet raccoon - each boot) called boondockers, dungarees (bellbottom jeans) over a pair of blue silky shorts, over a pair of underpants (white and with your name stenciled on the ass region).

    toastcrumbs Diary Entry toastcrumbs 2005

  • But this was a different sort of trip for me; I swapped flak, Kevlar, and boondockers for grandson, girlfriend, and pool sandals; we spent the week visiting my son and his wife.

    Andrew Lubin: Semper Fi and Always Faithful Andrew Lubin 2011

  • But this was a different sort of trip for me; I swapped flak, Kevlar, and boondockers for grandson, girlfriend, and pool sandals; we spent the week visiting my son and his wife.

    Andrew Lubin: Semper Fi and Always Faithful Andrew Lubin 2011

  • But this was a different sort of trip for me; I swapped flak, Kevlar, and boondockers for grandson, girlfriend, and pool sandals; we spent the week visiting my son and his wife.

    Andrew Lubin: Semper Fi and Always Faithful Andrew Lubin 2011

  • But this was a different sort of trip for me; I swapped flak, Kevlar, and boondockers for grandson, girlfriend, and pool sandals; we spent the week visiting my son and his wife.

    Andrew Lubin: Semper Fi and Always Faithful Andrew Lubin 2011

  • On Christmas morning, cold and cloudy, Father Kennedy, the plump young Navy Chaplain, resplendent in his vestments and scarlet wool scarf worn over cold weather gear and Marine boondockers, said Mass on the parade ground with an altar cloth spread on the hood of a jeep.

    Combat Christmas 2006

  • Several other Marines scrambled past him in single file, their boondockers kicking loose pebbles.

    Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005

  • He pulled his socks and boondockers back on, pausing frequently to hold his breath and listen.

    Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005

  • Sledge, who poured several ounces of sweat out of each of his boondockers afterward, called the attack across the airport his “worst combat experience” of the war.

    Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005

  • Soon, they were stumbling and tripping, their boondockers tangling in the knotty vines crisscrossing the trail.

    Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005

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