I just bought a new house, the last one ever I tell the wife, so I am going in nooks and crannies digging out shit and packing. Under the house I find two duffel bags with BDU's. These must be from mid 80's as they have E5 rank. So I tried them on. Christ, how fucking thin was I??? They are not much different than my ACU and yet they dont fit. The field jacket does, so I will keep that, but everything else is a bit tight. There must be 7 pairs here and I dont think they have ever been worn. Do surplus stores still want BDU's??? Are there still surplus stores? Found some of the old desert pattern too. Shit, and two pair of boots.
Why the hell did I keep this shit?

They were issued into the 2000's. You can't get much for them at surplus. You could sell them to kids who like paintball and playing army.

not sure where you're located, but there's quite a few military surplus stores near JBLM off of exit 122. Anytime you're near any type of military base there's bound to be a few surplus stores nearby. As far as I know they still want BDU's. Prepper's and people who wanna be tacti-cool buy the hell out of old military uniforms.

SW WA Surplus in Vancouver is a good place to go if you wanna get rid of them.

why did you keep them?? because you earned them! Got a few of those floating around myself and yes they work great if your out paintballin'

best return on them is to find neighborhood kids or relatives that can enjoy them

You could pif them or sell them here.
what size?

i still have a set Pressed, on a hanger in the plastic i cant seem to get rid of...and a pair of altama ripple sole jungle boots spit shined to go with it....I hide it from the wife lol

Size? I use this stuff for camping and when we go shooting into the woods with friends.

It is all XL regular (pants are XL long)...same with old style deserts.
And I just found a 20 dollar bill in one pant cargo pocket, with a visa receipt for the butterfly club in DC on 14th st..is that still there???
Did I really spend 196 bucks there? Dated 02/06/84

Eek. nvm

congrats on the $20 though. You should thank your past self.

20th Engineering

Nice.

Sounds like you were a fun dude in 84. You are old dude, I was 15 months old that day you decided to get really shit faced. That's like 350+ bucks nowadays god damn.

I remember having nights like that.... A lot of port calls where booze and loose women where CHEAP!

No shit? I remember that place. Spent my nights there when I would go to DC on the weekends when I was stationed in Aberdeen.

Local civil air patrol can never find woodland bdus or .22 ammo for training. They would very much appreciate any donations of either.