Posted on Sep 15, 2014
SFC Mark Merino
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What article from your military career would you put in the RallyPoint time capsule? TA-50, war trophies, souvenirs, etc. I'm starting with a dehydrated pork patty from the old dark brown MRE's. In 50 years, it will taste the same.
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
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12 Sets of dress greens
11 Steel mess kits
10 Mickey Mouse boots
9 Rounds of MDMP
8 AKO lockouts
7 Stripped down HMMWVs
6 Smoke grenades igniting
5 Shelter halves
4 CAC card readers
3 gamma goats
2 PT belts
and a pork patty MRE
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MSgt Bj Jones
MSgt Bj Jones
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I'm hearing this being sung as I read it. Love it!
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
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Fruitcakes PO2 Jonathan Scharff are the only human consumable food (and that is stretching it) that has a half life!
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PO2 Jonathan Scharff
PO2 Jonathan Scharff
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca my theory is that there is really only one fruit cake, and since no one eats it, it is passed around from person to person. lol
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Wisdom. The omnipotent fruitcake.
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SGT Job Seeker
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The tiny bottles of Tobasco hot sauce. Those little bastards made every MRE better!
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SPC David S.
SPC David S.
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If if taste like SOS add more t sause. Works with Army mudd too.
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SP5 Joel O'Brien
SP5 Joel O'Brien
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I imagine the packets are easier to squeeze to get ALL the goodness out...
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SGM Mikel Dawson
SGM Mikel Dawson
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Packets may be easier, but the little bottles had more class
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Like little XMAS gifts.
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SSG Robert Burns
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Easy...PT belt. That way the people of the future will know how their ancestors survived for so long.
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SFC(P) Imagery Sergeant
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PO1 (Join to see), that's impossible, they can only keep you safe, never do harm to anyone.
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PO1 Master-at-Arms
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Right on, SFC(P) (Join to see), imagine what the 6 o'clock news would say, "Reflective belt turned deadly for one sailor hearing excessive SSG Robert Burns comments"
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CPT Zachary Brooks
CPT Zachary Brooks
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I think you have that headline wrong:

"Reflective belt saves sailor who attempted suicide. Belt given Medal of Honor, sailor being monitored."
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Classic! Reflective belt saves the day!!!
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Poor choice SFC Mark Merino. MREs DO go bad after a while. How would I know this? Because I have had the misfortune of discovering this delicious factoid myself.
A couple of years ago, I was given a box of brown MREs. They had been in a connex. There was no expiration date on it. (Where is the expiration date on an MRE?) They could have been sitting in that connex for a decade, but what the hell. It's an MRE. I thought they were like, the food version of Methuselah.
We got them home and my kids dove into the box. MREs, to the average kiddo, is like a McDonald's Happy Meal. Mine viewed the MRE heater as the "prize". (The first clue that something was amiss was when I found four opened and barely eaten packs of candy in the trash.)
Have you ever seen the Family Guy episode "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter"?
If you haven't seen the vomit scene, don't. Just take my word for it and encapsulate something else.
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SFC(P) Imagery Sergeant
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When I was in WLC, during our field problem, I opened my MRE, and everything was covered in mold. So yea they do go bad, and I did throw up, just from the smell.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Tasty.
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SPC(P) Jay Heenan
SPC(P) Jay Heenan
10 y
Being a Food Inspector, I do happen to have some expertise in this area. Yes, Operation Rations have expiration dates, you will find them on the outside of the box. They also have a little red sticker, called a Time Temperature Indicator (TTI) that helps us determine whether they were temperature abused. You can also use the link below to get all the information about Operational Rations you want (same information we use to inspect them).

https://www.troopsupport.dla.mil/
Go to 'Supply Chains', then 'Subsistence', then Operational Rations.
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SSG Aircraft Mechanic
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One of these
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MSgt Chris Adams
MSgt Chris Adams
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My dad still carries one on his key chain
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Sgt Michael McLEAN
Sgt Michael McLEAN
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I have one too
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SGM Mikel Dawson
SGM Mikel Dawson
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Mine is still on my dogtags. When I travel my tags are on my person, so when the plane crashes they can identify me.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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I like the way you think.
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COL Randall C.
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A video of SSG V. Michelle Woods' RPx interview ... Southern drawl and all!
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CPT Company Commander
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SSG V. Michelle Woods I only have you going because I fear getting lost on the way there
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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When SSG V. Michelle Woods gets home, I will be proud to make her a sammich.
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SPC(P) Jay Heenan
SPC(P) Jay Heenan
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CPT (Join to see), You sir, win the internet today!!! Hahahahaha!
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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He's always rangerrific!
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LTC Hillary Luton
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I want to add my Saddam Hussein voodoo doll that my mom sent me during Desert Storm.  I have no good reason why.  I can't come up with anything brilliant to say tonight.
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SSG Laureano Pabon
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lol
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1LT Nick Kidwell
1LT Nick Kidwell
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I would put in my deck of cards from OIF.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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1LT Nick Kidwell I'd hold on to those bad mamma jammas.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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MONEY!
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TSgt Joshua Copeland
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Blackberry/iphone....the Bain of every officer and SNCOs existence
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LTC Hillary Luton
LTC Hillary Luton
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Most definitely!!!!
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Or one of these..
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SSG Maurice P.
SSG Maurice P.
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1st bn 9th marines1975 okinawa
WHO NEEDS A TENT WHEN BACK IN THE DAY ALL MARINES CARRIED A FIELD TRANSPORT PACK ON HIS BACK...IT CAME WITH A SHELTER HALF HEHEHEHEHEHEHE REMEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Flight Engineer.....aka:Maintainer of the blessed POGie bait.
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SSG Aircraft Mechanic
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aka: a cooler full of cliff bars, poptarts and energy drinks :D
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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This guy had steak, eggs, and all the trimmings.
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1SG Company First Sergeant
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the LT saluting thread, and I would never open the capsule to see it again!! I had to CPT (Join to see), I haven't linked "that" thread to another one in a while!!
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CPT Company Commander
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Yet another link to "that" discussion.


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1SG Company First Sergeant
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"that"
Have to have the quotation marks CPT (Join to see) LOL
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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It is bad when "that thread" is so easily recognizable by the community.
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