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SARGE'SARMY-NAVY SURPLUS
GENUINE G.I. SURPLUS · SINCE 1990 Field jackets. Boots. Camping gear. Y2K supplies. No firearms. |
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Listen up. My nephew put this page together for me because he says everybody's got to have one now. I told him
fine, as long as it doesn't play music. So here it is. This is the web page for Sarge's Army-Navy Surplus, which is a store,
on Main Street, in Fort Hollis, next to the barber. It is not a "web store." You can't buy anything from this page. You have
to come in. That's how it works.
What we sell is real military surplus. Not the shiny stuff from a catalog that was made last year in a factory to look like it. The real thing, out of real warehouses, that was made for soldiers and sailors and has been sitting in a crate waiting for you. Some of it is new in the wrapper. Some of it is used and has been around the block. I'll tell you which is which. I don't sell junk and I don't sell anything I wouldn't carry myself. |
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WHAT'S IN STOCK (as of Sept. 1999) Prices are ballpark. Stock changes every week. Call or come in. | |
| M-65 FIELD JACKETS | The one everybody wants. Olive drab, woodland camo, and a few in the desert pattern. Hood rolls up in the collar. Genuine G.I. issue, used, graded and washed, from $35. New in the bag with the button-in liner, $75. Sizes small through extra-large, regular and long. The liner is the whole secret to this jacket. Buy the liner. |
| WOOL BLANKETS | G.I. wool blankets, olive drab, about 62 by 80 inches. Warm when wet, which cotton is not. Used, $12. New, $22. Every car trunk in this county should have one, and I'll tell you why when you come in. |
| AMMO CANS | Steel, with the rubber gasket in the lid. Watertight, airtight, mouse-proof. Empty, of course. Best storage box ever made and I have people buying them for tools, fishing tackle, photographs, papers, and things they don't tell me about. .30 cal size $5, .50 cal size $8, the big 20mm size $15. I have a pallet of them out back. |
| MESS KITS & CANTEENS | Aluminum mess kits (the folding kind with the pan and plate), $8. Stainless steel canteen cups, $6. One-quart canteens with the cover and belt clip, $7, or $10 with the cup. Plastic canteens are new. The old steel ones I get once in a while and they go fast. |
| BOOTS | Black leather combat boots, new, $45. Jungle boots (the ones with the canvas sides and the drain holes), new, $40. Some used boots at $15-20, broken in, which some of you prefer. If you have big feet, come see me. I've got 13s and 14s you can't find at the mall. |
| MREs | Meal, Ready-to-Eat. Complete meal in a brown pouch: entree, side, crackers, spread, dessert, drink mix, matches, and the little bottle of hot sauce. No refrigeration, shelf life of years if you keep them cool. $4.50 each or a case of 12 for $48. No, I don't know which ones are the good ones. They're all about the same. The spaghetti's okay. |
| ALSO ON THE SHELVES | Wool watch caps ($4). Wool glove liners. Poncho liners, the "woobie," $18, you will fight your wife for it. Rubberized ponchos. Duffel bags, the big green ones, $15. ALICE packs with the frame, $45. Web belts, pistol belts (for holding up your pants, not pistols), suspenders. Entrenching tools (a folding shovel). Sleeping bags, intermediate cold weather, $40. Mosquito netting. Sewing kits. P-38 can openers, 50 cents, buy three, put one on your key ring. Dog tags made while you wait, $5 a set. Boot laces, boot polish, 550 cord by the foot. Navy peacoats when I can get them, and they go the same week. |
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ABOUT THIS Y2K BUSINESS Since about June I've had a whole new kind of customer coming in. Nice people, never been in a surplus store in their lives, wearing loafers, and they've all read the same magazine article about January 1, 2000. They want camp stoves, water cans, lanterns, and generators. I AM OUT OF GENERATORS. I sold the last one in August. I don't know when I'll get more. Don't call and ask; I'll put a sign in the window when I do. What I do have: G.I. five-gallon water cans, the plastic kind, $12. Jerry cans for fuel, steel, $18 (don't put water in the fuel cans or fuel in the water cans; they're different colors for a reason). Single-burner camp stoves and a few of the two-burner kind. Kerosene lanterns, candle lanterns, and about a million candles. Wool blankets, see above. MREs, see above. Water purification tablets. Hand-crank flashlights. A first-aid kit that's better than the one in your car. Now here's my opinion, for what it's worth, from a man who spent 22 years living out of a rucksack. Is the world going to end on New Year's? No. Is it a bad idea to have some water, some food, a way to cook it, a way to see in the dark, and a warm blanket in the house? Also no. That was true before anybody said "Y2K" and it'll be true in February when everybody's forgotten about it. Buy what you'd want in an ice storm. That's plenty. Don't let anybody sell you a bunker. |
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HOURS & WHERE Monday - Friday: 0900 to 1800 (that's 9 to 6 for civilians) Saturday: 0900 to 1700 Sunday: Closed. Go to church or go fishing. Main Street, Fort Hollis, next to the barber shop. Look for the jeep out front. It's not for sale. Telephone (555) 555-0187. If nobody answers, I'm in the back unloading a truck. Try again. Closed Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Fourth of July. Open Memorial Day, but it's a quiet day in the store and I'd rather you were at the parade. |
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WE BUY SURPLUS I buy surplus lots. If you've got a garage or a barn full of old military gear, a footlocker of Grandpa's, a pallet from an auction you didn't know what to do with, or you're cleaning out a store, I'll come look at it. I pay cash, I pay fair, and I don't waste your time. I'm most interested in clothing, field gear, blankets, canvas, tents, and containers. Uniforms with insignia, patches, and medals I'll look at but I mostly pass those along to the collectors in town, who know more than I do. What I don't buy and don't sell: firearms. Not rifles, not pistols, not parts, not ammunition. Nothing. We're a clothing and gear store. There's a licensed gun shop over in the next county and that's their business, not mine. Don't bring it in the store, and don't ask. Same goes for anything that goes bang. Inert dummy grenades for paperweights, fine. Anything that used to be live, no. E-mail me (my nephew reads it to me) or call the store. |
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ABOUT SARGE My name is Bill. Everybody calls me Sarge, including my wife, and I've stopped fighting it. I did 22 years in the United States Army, went in at 18, made sergeant first class, and spent a good part of those years in supply, which means I know what a real field jacket looks like and what a knockoff looks like, and I know how to count. When I retired in 1989 I figured I'd fish. I lasted about six months. In the spring of 1990 I rented the old feed store on Main Street, bought a truckload of surplus at an auction, and hung a sign up. I've been here since. My wife does the books, my nephew does the computer, and I do everything else. Nine years, a lot of field jackets, and I have not once regretted it, except for the week the roof leaked on the wool blankets. I'll talk your ear off about gear if you let me. I'll also tell you straight if you don't need something. Half the people who come in looking for a sleeping bag really need a good blanket and a ground pad, and I'd rather sell you the right thing for $30 than the wrong thing for $80. You'll come back. That's the whole business plan. If you served, come in and say so. Coffee's on. It's Army coffee, so you've been warned. |
