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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SFC Mark Merino
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A duffelbag of this garbage.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Does anyone else still have this stuff?
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SGM Mikel Dawson
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One of those fat collars from the first BDU's
A can of Kiwi boot polish
A can of pound cake
a compass (seeing how every thing is going electronic)
my old sleeping bag cover with poncho liner inside (spent many night in this)
Last but not least, my old steel pot. So many more uses for it than just sitting on my head.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Great additions. In 50 years, our decendents can still eat the pound cake.
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Cpl Ray Fernandez
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I'd find a bunch of random useless items and let them attempt to figure it out. I'm sure over the centuries many of the relics we've uncovered were used completely differently than we imagine them.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
10 y
Great idea. Like on Futurama 1,000 years in the future. "Whalers on the moon."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BjkUtqxPE
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PO1 Utilitiesman
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I'll go with the dehydrated peaches or pears. THOSE were on point.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
10 y
And will last 50 years!
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PO2 Corey Ferretti
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A shelter half i had to use on my first 2 Field exersises. Nothing says great night sleep like a shelter half
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PO2 Corey Ferretti
PO2 Corey Ferretti
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SFC Mark Merino it is a acronym for patrols.
Begin planning
Arrange recon?
Make recon
Command and control
I?
S?
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It's the Navy / Marine Corps version of "RIMICCIS".

Begin planning
Arrange Recon
Make recon
Complete the plan
Implement the plan
Supervise.

When I was teaching Convoy Security and MOUT for the Navy abck between '06 and '09, my partner turned it into something that means "bad ass", since we're "not allowed to curse" in front of students.
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PO2 Corey Ferretti
PO2 Corey Ferretti
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Yeah I remember that is when we started hearing it during Convoy and M.O.U.N.T. I was wondering where it started.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
10 y
No cursing in front of troops is like saying "excuse me" when tossing a grenade at the enemy. TRADOC rules!
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CPT Jack Durish
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A butt can and the sign from a wooden barracks warning that "If this building catches fire it will burn to the ground in 180 seconds"
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
10 y
Sweet. Good addition.
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SSG Daniel Deiler
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Corned Beef and Hash MRE, pot belly stove, woodland BDU's, and an IET smart book. PT belt is an automatic.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Goes without saying.
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SFC Mark Merino
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We might need a bigger time capsule. If there is room, this puppy has been in service through ALL of our careers. Ma Deuce Respect!
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SGT Michael Glenn
SGT Michael Glenn
10 y
I remember setting down on that damn tripod and pulling the butterfly only to have the gun walk away with me and my buck and a 1/4 girly body !!!!! Arny would have hung his head in shame !!!!!
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
10 y
She was an angry girl at times.
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SGT Michael Glenn
SGT Michael Glenn
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AMEN to that !!!!
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
10 y
Since my back hurts and I can't manage the .50 weight anymore, I found a "smaller" variation.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhfvuQvKGrA
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SSG Stan Morrison Jr
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Hominy and Grits T-rat, when I dropped mine in the sand at Fort Lost in the Woods Missouri, it actually made it taste better. And what the heck is Hominy? Or, an old M16A1 lefty brass deflector, no all M16 family rifles didn't come with a built in one. That little add on would get ripped off in the woods, the very next round you fired went into your shirt...OUCHY!
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
10 y
Do me a favor and swing by Norristown and say "hi" to my folks.
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SGM Senior Adviser, National Communications
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SFC Marino...excellent point on the MRE...if I had a can of C-Rats White Bread would include it...otherwise probably my Nikon SLR camera from Stars and Stripes and some news clips....D
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SGM Senior Adviser, National Communications
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1SG Blount...not so sure...when we were kids in Panama in mid 60s, soldiers were still eating WWII C-Rat...we picked them up all the time from jungle training. What you couldn't eat would usually burn to keep mosquitoes away...no one could eat the White Bread nor would it even burn in a fire...scary stuff...and we still had WWII rations in the mid 70s at Ft McClellan!!
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1SG Michael Blount
1SG Michael Blount
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SGM (Join to see) - I think the first MRE I ever had was from.....come to think of it, not sure my calendar goes back that far.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
10 y
My first MRE was in the back of a Deuce 1/2 in Germany in 1990.....I think.
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SFC Mark Merino
SFC Mark Merino
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Remember that scene from "The Pacific"....."These rations are from WWI. Supply says they are still good, you just have to suck on them for a while" Semper Fi Devil Dogs!
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