Feb 262010
A while back I saw this “Sargeant” missile in the parking lot of an Army-Navy store. I have doubts about whether much – if anything – on it is actual Sargeant hardware, or if it’s entirely fake. The fins, for example, were wood.
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Is that on Redwood Rd. in SLC? If so I’ve been by that several times but have never taken a close look at it.
Yup, that’s the one. Sadly, the Army Surplus store right there, like I guess all surplus stores, isn’t so much a “surplus store” than it is an “outdoor store.” I want the surplus stores to start carrying tanks, flamethrowers, rocket launchers and fighter-bombers again. I want to be able to go into such a store and know that I’ll be confronted with shelf after shelf of enemy hardware, taken from the dead corpses of those dumbass enough to go up against the US Army or Marines. I want to see racks of former US military weapons, available because now they’ve got *better* stuff.
Sigh…
Down in Salt Lake or in Ogden? I’ve seen it a couple times as a kid but damned if I can remember where it is.
Ah, Redwood Rd. (was off the top of the screen )
Scott, you have the same memories as I, concerning surplus stores. There was a wall of electronic stuff, and my friend Bob would take me with him to help carry power supplies and cable and piles of switches. *sigh*
And this suggests some questions. Where, online, can one buy that cool stuff we remember so well? Barnacle Wharf burned in 2001 and has never returned, as best I can tell. John J Meshna has been gone since about 1990. What’s available today?
Is the missile a full size training round used to teach transport troops how to handle it? They have a SRAM one of those on display down at Valley City, around 3o miles from here.
My brother may have made the ultimate military surplus store find back in the 1980’s; an inert Davy Crockett nuclear recoilless rifle round.
I could have latched onto a Finnish 20mm antitank rifle from a surplus shop in town way back when, but settled for a cutaway Navy “Mousetrap” ASW rocket.