Enemy Militaria has been online since early 2017!
We are approaching 10 YEARS! We have thousands of subscribers, have sold thousands of items and have thousands of items currently offered for sale!
We started a YouTube channel and plan on adding hundreds of informative videos for our anniversary.
The founder started collecting militaria in the mid 1970s. At that time, WWII Vets were in their late 40s and early 50s; Korean War Vets were in their early 40s and Vietnam Vets were still in their 20s! The Cold War was on. Grenada, Panama, Somalia and the Gulf Wars were a long way away.
Things were very different then in the collecting field. For example, my first Japanese helmet, a Christmas present, had a liner, chinstrap and a nice original net and cost only $65.00. My first Japanese Arisaka, a Type 99 was $38.50. When I was 16, I bought a new condition papered Chi-Com SKS and chestbag from a First Cav vet after he answered an ad I put in the local paper. I rode my bicycle to his house and bought it. He drove me home and handed it to my mother. Now, we would all go to jail for conspiracy to violate something or another.
Over the decades, the collection grew. The founder amassed a pretty respectable collection buying and trading one item, groupings or collections. He, like all collectors, was always trying to find the best and upgraded lesser items.
In the 1980s, after 11B AIT and Jump School, the founder served as Cadre at Army Ranger School. He went to Ranger School, Class 11-83 (The last hard class), he then transferred into B Co. 3rd Ranger Bn. as a plank holder. After that enlistment ended, he served as a Team Leader with Det4thForReconCo USMCR.
During that time, he bought some Cuban gear captured on Grenada from a guy he went to Ranger School with. After serving, he expanded into collecting the Cold War. In the early 1990s, he bought a huge pile of Iraqi items from a Major returning from Desert Storm. The Major sent home MRE boxes full of uniforms and gear. The postage on boxes was marked “free.” When America’s longest war started, OIF – Enduring Freedom, he began to buy what he could from guys still in-theater.
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