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The Van Nuys Army & Navy Surplus Store, a former surplus store in Los Angeles, California, United States. A surplus store or disposals store is a business that sells items and goods that are used, purchased but unused, or past their use by date, and are no longer needed due to excess supply, decommissioning, or obsolescence.
Family-owned Friedman's Army Navy store has been operating in Nashville since 1949. Its last location is closing after 52 years in the Hillsboro Village neighborhood.
This site was advantageous because it afforded immediate access to three important railroad lines. The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps made the first purchase of land, 281 acres (1.14 km 2), to construct a government military installation in April, 1918. Warehouse construction began in May of that year, and by August, six warehouses were ...
The history of army surplus in the United States dates back to the American Civil War. [3] [better source needed] This was the first large American war that required proper military uniforms for many troops. [citation needed] In earlier wars, most troops were basically a militia wearing whatever they had with them. This required mass-produced ...
The Navy joined the organisation in June 1917 and the newly formed Royal Air Force in April 1918. [16] After the war a government committee recommended a single body be responsible for canteens in the armed forces and on 1 January 1921 the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) took over from the then Navy and Army Canteen Board. [17]
Navy Exchange is a retail store chain owned and operated by the United States Navy under the Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM), part of the Naval Supply Systems Command. The Navy Exchange offers goods and services to active military , retirees, and certain civilians on Navy installations in the United States , overseas Navy bases, and ...