Altama Authorized Dealer
ALTAMA was founded in 1969 in Darien, Georgia. Originally a children’s shoe plant, the facility was converted to manufacture olive drab jungle boots for US Soldiers serving in Vietnam. Since 1969, ALTAMA has been a leading manufacturer of Mil-Spec boots for the US Department of Defense, supplying to thousands of military personnel worldwide. In addition to the US Military, ALTAMA markets and distributes its products to federal, state and local agencies, military schools, police, Special Forces, uniform shops and Army/Navy retailers.
In 1991, following Desert Storm, ALTAMA developed a line of high performance combat boots for civilian use with the traditional Panama sole. These boots combine the design features of our Mil-Spec boots and are made using the same knowledge gained from that experience. To achieve more traction for road marches, soldiers began taking their boots to shoe repair shops and resoling them with “saw tooth” bottoms. Therefore in 2003, ALTAMA began manufacturing Original Ripple Sole Boots and was the first company to make them available for civilian use. .
