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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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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
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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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
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
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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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) (Join to see)
PO1 (Join to see), that's impossible, they can only keep you safe, never do harm to anyone.
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PO1 (Join to see)
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
I think you have that headline wrong:
"Reflective belt saves sailor who attempted suicide. Belt given Medal of Honor, sailor being monitored."
"Reflective belt saves sailor who attempted suicide. Belt given Medal of Honor, sailor being monitored."
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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.
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) (Join to see)
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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SPC(P) Jay Heenan
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.
https://www.troopsupport.dla.mil/
Go to 'Supply Chains', then 'Subsistence', then Operational Rations.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
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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SSG V. Michelle Woods I only have you going because I fear getting lost on the way there
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SSG Maurice P.
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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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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Yet another link to "that" discussion.
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