Thinking of re-soling your cbt boots with a vibram sole? My advice...get the required medical chit prior to doing so. MIR gives you the chit..take it to clothing stores and they will send your boots out to get them resoled at no cost to you. There is a National contract for re-soling CF footwear so if you are doing it on your own (ie without authorization) you are not only acting in breach of a Federal contract, you are also acting in contradiction to CF policy which expressly forbids you from willfully modifying or destructing taxpayers property...a chargeable offense. Doing it the proper way allows you to have a chit in your pocket (for when the RSM asks you why you have vibram soles on-CYA-no extras etc) and allows you to have a copy on your clothing docs so you do not have to fill out a Stores Loss and Damage Report explaining how you broke the rules and will now have to re-imburse the Crown for your combat boots when you release/component transfer etc because you willfully modified them. On a better note, there is now a review going on to have all boots coming into the system standard with vibram soles, finally. But from a Sup Tech point of view....we agree with you all that the kit could use improvements. Please don't complain to us because we don't decide. Better yet, use what is already officially in the CF to suggest improvements to your kit. This would be the UCR. (Unsatisfactory Condition Report). Do a DIN search and you will find this form electronically, fill it out and e-mail to the IM and LCMM, this is the way to effect change. PS, did you know that for the amount of pers who want to re-sole their boots to vibrams....NDHQ has never...neverreceived a UCR from a single person recommending this change? I saw it on an earlier thread that the pers buying us the kit had no clue what we needed or what the problems with it were....well that's why the UCR exists. It is the soldier's tool to effect change, change can only happen if pers use the resources already available to them.