{"id":857,"date":"2021-02-11T05:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T05:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=857"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:22:20","slug":"early-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/early-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Petty Officer&#8217;s Wool Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This heavy wool shirt came up for sale on eBay in 2011 and for the longest time I couldn&#8217;t identify it. Now that I have a more complete catalogue collection I believe it to be the surplus Chief Petty Officer&#8217;s Wool Shirt from the 1983 Fall catalogue: &#8220;The U.S. Navy&#8217;s Chief Petty Officers are generally crusty sailors, tough and knowledgeable. They don&#8217;t take nonsense from anybody&#8230;except the higher brass. Well, the Navy&#8217;s higher brass, in its brassy wisdom, decided to take the wool our of the wool shirts (they went with 100% polyester). With 70% wool blended to 30% nylon and other fabrics, the original shirt had a way of keeping CPOs toasty even when soaking wet, and then drying quickly. The CPO&#8217;s loss is our gain. Our sympathies to these now synthetic-clad shivering sailors, but all&#8217;s fair in surplus and war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/fall1983\/brfall1983006.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"912\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503662792_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1022\" title=\"503662792_o\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503662792_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503662792_o.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503662792_o-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503669362_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1023\" title=\"503669362_o\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503669362_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503669362_o.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503669362_o-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503669376_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1024\" title=\"503669376_o\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503669376_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503669376_o.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/503669376_o-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This heavy wool shirt came up for sale on eBay in 2011 and for the longest time I couldn&#8217;t identify it. Now that I have a more complete catalogue collection I believe it to be the surplus Chief Petty Officer&#8217;s Wool Shirt from the 1983 Fall catalogue: &#8220;The U.S. Navy&#8217;s Chief Petty Officers are generally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1435,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12220,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/12220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}