Posted on Jun 24, 2015
Field/Combat Army Rations. What Are Your Stories of Eating Chow? CHOW SHARE OF THE DAY?
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Military Rations, MREs & Food we all got to have it for survival. I always said, you can work me hard but just feed me! There I was Soldering all day in Iraq, instead of an empty stomach all I wanted was some HOT chow to keep pushing. Just gives me that replenishment to DRIVE ON WITH FOR THE MISSION/TASK AT HAND!
The military food supply, combat rations, ranging from the canned rations of World War II, Korea and Vietnam to the modern Meals, Ready to Eat (MRE) and HooAH! Bar:
Field or Combat Army Rations: C-Rations, K-Rations, D-Rations and More
Rations are fundamental to military operations. The US Army Quartermaster Corps, and equivalent units in all military services around the world, have to provide for the daily food needs of combat and support troops under all conditions. While cooked food served from field kitchens, or mess hall food at permanent bases, covers much of the need, many front line troops require special rations prepared and packaged for field use. Here are some example(inclusive):
• Military Food Supply, General
• Field Hydration
• Field and Combat Rations ◦Field Rations: C, K, D & More
◦Meal, Ready to Eat (MRE)
◦HooAH! Bar
◦First Strike Ration
• Emergency Rations ◦WW II Emergency Rations
◦Food Packet, Survival, General Purpose, Improved
◦Food Packet, Survival, Abandon Ship
◦Food Packet, Survival, Aircraft, Life Raft
◦Water, Drinking, Emergency
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SGT Charlie Lee PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] SSG William Jones SPC Nancy Greene PO1 Tony Holland SGT Mark Anderson LTC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland SGT James Murphy Sgt (Join to see) LTC David Brown 1SG Dan Capri CDR Andrew McMenamin, PhD
The military food supply, combat rations, ranging from the canned rations of World War II, Korea and Vietnam to the modern Meals, Ready to Eat (MRE) and HooAH! Bar:
Field or Combat Army Rations: C-Rations, K-Rations, D-Rations and More
Rations are fundamental to military operations. The US Army Quartermaster Corps, and equivalent units in all military services around the world, have to provide for the daily food needs of combat and support troops under all conditions. While cooked food served from field kitchens, or mess hall food at permanent bases, covers much of the need, many front line troops require special rations prepared and packaged for field use. Here are some example(inclusive):
• Military Food Supply, General
• Field Hydration
• Field and Combat Rations ◦Field Rations: C, K, D & More
◦Meal, Ready to Eat (MRE)
◦HooAH! Bar
◦First Strike Ration
• Emergency Rations ◦WW II Emergency Rations
◦Food Packet, Survival, General Purpose, Improved
◦Food Packet, Survival, Abandon Ship
◦Food Packet, Survival, Aircraft, Life Raft
◦Water, Drinking, Emergency
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SGT Charlie Lee PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] SSG William Jones SPC Nancy Greene PO1 Tony Holland SGT Mark Anderson LTC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland SGT James Murphy Sgt (Join to see) LTC David Brown 1SG Dan Capri CDR Andrew McMenamin, PhD
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I had my favorites, but from the MRE stories I hear, might have been better off, lol.
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My first C rat was sitting on one of the abandoned runways on Parris Island, it was pork slices. Didn’t bother to heat it just eat it.
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VC liked the cans too, they turned them into grenades and booby traps. Personally I liked C Rats, the pork slices were good, spaghetti and meatballs, beenie weenie. A little Tabasco good to go.
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in '43 we sent $3 billion worth of food to Russia - when a Soviet Hero opened a can of Spam, he would joke to his comrades "Let's open a second front"!
Still have a P-38 on my keyring - going thru the metal detector at the courthouse, the sheriff's Deputies were going nuts "It's A Blade!!" - it's a quarter inch long, what are you going to cut with it? - they didn't hear that, they were still going nuts about me having a blade with me.
When they made the MREs they took away the taste of the can, thats why they were tasteless.
Still have a P-38 on my keyring - going thru the metal detector at the courthouse, the sheriff's Deputies were going nuts "It's A Blade!!" - it's a quarter inch long, what are you going to cut with it? - they didn't hear that, they were still going nuts about me having a blade with me.
When they made the MREs they took away the taste of the can, thats why they were tasteless.
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I admit I liked the "C" ration. When I was on Okinawa ('71), we had a typhoon and were stuck in the barracks for 4 days. We ate "C" rations that had been canned in the early 1960s....still good. I especially enjoyed the 'John Wayne Bars'. Was still eating C's in the field in early '80s and remember well the transition to MREs.
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Well, my friend SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL in 1975 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky we ate k-rations and traded them. Some soldiers preferred to use hot sauce on virtually everything. Some of the draftees in the combat engineer unit were somewhat pycho and they would eat almost anything.
Once a day or so we would get reasonably hot food served in mermite cans.
In those days, field rations included the 4 packs of cigarettes, which were trade-able material.
In the late 1970's, I ate LRRP meal with warm water a few times which was interesting; but, not tasty :-). We were warned to never eat LRRP's dry and then drink water because they would bloat upside you.
In 1977, I killed a chicken, after soothing it by placing a wing over its head and stroking it until I twisted its neck and helped prepare it in a field soup.
Throughout the late 1970's and into the 1980's we continued to eat k-rations and generally had a hot meal once a day using mermite cans delivered to wherever we were. Sometimes we ate breakfast at dinner time :-)
Images:
1. MCI_Box_1971_01
2. C-ration John Wayne Bars and crackers.
3. Mermite can
4. C-ration - cigarettes.j
Once a day or so we would get reasonably hot food served in mermite cans.
In those days, field rations included the 4 packs of cigarettes, which were trade-able material.
In the late 1970's, I ate LRRP meal with warm water a few times which was interesting; but, not tasty :-). We were warned to never eat LRRP's dry and then drink water because they would bloat upside you.
In 1977, I killed a chicken, after soothing it by placing a wing over its head and stroking it until I twisted its neck and helped prepare it in a field soup.
Throughout the late 1970's and into the 1980's we continued to eat k-rations and generally had a hot meal once a day using mermite cans delivered to wherever we were. Sometimes we ate breakfast at dinner time :-)
Images:
1. MCI_Box_1971_01
2. C-ration John Wayne Bars and crackers.
3. Mermite can
4. C-ration - cigarettes.j
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