BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The air in Brian Beller’s office is drenched in the acrid scent of recently lacquered oak recovered from a World War II era ship.
A row of dusty cash registers from the USS Des Moines, frozen with the price of their final sales, occupy the top shelf of a metal case behind Beller’s desk. His job is to find a home for these items, the incongruent remnants of Navy ghost ships haunting his office.
“It’s kind of a service to the people that served on the ships,” he said.
“It’d be a shame to see it go to waste.”
What man doesn't get excited at the idea of military surplus items? For someone like me who was once in the Navy, this is the mother lode of cool stuff.
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