The Thread

[Mike Solli]

[:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

If that's what it takes to keep an MRE down, you bet your butt I'm willing...

Exactly!

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

They've actually gotten much better. I don't mind them too much any more. I still lose weight when I have to eat them for an extended period though.

My first experience with MREs came about while walking my dogs in an area where the Airborne maneuvered - near Camp McCall, just outside Fort Bragg. There was a mostly burnt down school there that the Airborne would defend on maneuvers (against the Rangers, iirc).

i was walking my dogs near there after a divorce which left me broke, and i found a brown plastic package of MREs: Pork Patties (this was c. 1985). The MRE was still sealed and impervious to anything short of a bayonet assault, i actually consumed it. i soon found out WHY the guy had tossed the pork patty dinner out!! [:'(]

As the name goes MREs = Meals Rejected by Ethiopians!! [:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

I dunno about bayonets, but I'm pretty sure that plastic is bulletproof. I think the powers that be were trying to ensure that the troops "worked up a proper appetite" trying to open the thing before they ate it.

[Mike Solli]

Yup, the dehydrated pork patty was my first MRE as well.

Nasty stuff.

[Onime No Kyo]

Not as bad as Potatos au Grotain (sp?). My gag reflex kicks in at the mere thought.

[fabertong]

Bless the Thread......I have been away to long....

[mogami]

Hi, well I like MRE's,  Pork patties included. Now we know why they made me a cook.

[BrucePowers]

Mike;
Do you guys ever get sent to Fort Drum in New York. There was a state road thru the place when it was camp Drum. I was headed to a hospital in Utica for ankle surgery (in the 60's), there was a sign on the road that said something like Caution tank crossing. That was a really cool sign for an 11 year old to see.

[Onime No Kyo]

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[BrucePowers]

Oh, you guys can still hold the snake, not me.

It's raining (YEA!). This however terminates the battery charging ops on the jeep.

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, well I like MRE's,  Pork patties included. Now we know why they made me a cook.

The Army moves in VERY mysterious ways... No matter which army...

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Mike;
Do you guys ever get sent to Fort Drum in New York. There was a state road thru the place when it was camp Drum. I was headed to a hospital in Utica for ankle surgery (in the 60's), there was a sign on the road that said something like Caution tank crossing. That was a really cool sign for an 11 year old to see.

Nope, never been there.

[BrucePowers]

Before they put the 10th Mountain there in the 80's it was all just National Guard training. A lot of units from all over the east went there. They also liked the place in the winter because it got really cold and could snow a lot. It's right on the edge of the Lake Ontario snow belt.

Oh did I mention it can get really really cold. When a friend suggested I move to Florida, I took him up on it.

[mogami]

Hi

[BrucePowers]

Back to the MRE thing. My dad said he would trade for the K or C ration, whichever one had the Spam in it. When I was growing up he was still eating the stuff. He used to fry it up.

[mogami]

Hi, I really liked C-rats. When I was in the Corps 73-77 we used to eat C-rats marked "inspected 1968" and "made in 1944"  The only ones I really hated were Ham and Lima beans but I've hated lima beans since I was a kid.
I'm not a picky eater. I like SPAM out of the can.

[BrucePowers]

Is that where my dad learned to like lima beans? I hated them, but he loved them. My mom would serve them at least once a week. They got washed down with lots of milk.

[DuckofTindalos]

Bump-.-.-

[Onime No Kyo]

Why?