Sword & plough bags.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF SMALL biz

An intelligence officer in the U.S. Army by day, Emily Nunez makes bags of repurposed military surplus (namely retired parachutes, sleeping bags and other gear) by night with her sister Betsy. But it's not work, she explains. "I've got so much passion for it, it doesn't feel like a job." Based at Fort Carson, Nunez says her upbringing made her keen to surplus often being burned instead of recycled. "Growing up in a military family, I knew how much military surplus went to waste," she says. "I was inspired by other startups that were...