Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots is a 1989 American made-for-television comedy film directed by Anson Williams and starring Barbara Eden, Héctor Elizondo, Meagen Fay, David Kaufman.

Brenda Andersen (Barbara Eden) is an overprotective single mother from Iowa, who does not want her 18-year-old son Jimmy (David Kaufman) to follow in the footsteps of her late husband (who died in a parachute accident in Vietnam) by becoming an Airborne paratrooper in the US Army.

So she assumes the identity of an AWOL Airborne trainee named Susan Zimmel in order to enter the base and try to persuade Jimmy to leave.

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots was filmed on site in 1988 at United States Army Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia: it features the original barracks which housed the 555th Parachute Infantry Regiment (which has since been demolished and replaced with a parking lot),[1] the Military Clothing Sales Store, the Airborne School Headquarters, the tank trail on Kelly Hill, and various training sites.

Barbara Eden's real-life son, Matthew Ansara, makes a cameo appearance in the film playing a young soldier.