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Grant Nelson Send message Joined: 7 May 12 Posts: 8022 Credit: 4,237,757 RAC: 0 |
now they want to delete the one the hot meals of the day? give me a break!! drag though's guys from DC over there and let them eat cold food and let them do without ! see what happen's. this is stupid. |
Grant Nelson Send message Joined: 7 May 12 Posts: 8022 Credit: 4,237,757 RAC: 0 |
What on earth are you on about, speak English man! Chris I was correcting, I can't see that well, the gov is doing away with the hot meal of the day? for the guy's over sea's? you got to be kidding me. Sorry chris it takes me a while to type and correct. |
Grant Nelson Send message Joined: 7 May 12 Posts: 8022 Credit: 4,237,757 RAC: 0 |
Because we're drawing down troops in Afghanistan, the Marines at Camp Leatherneck are doing away with their *hot* midnight meal. They'll still have MREs. My son-in-law gave me a few MRE's which I wasn't thrilled with but they were hot. I still like hot off the stove. Oh I had many meals out in the cold let me tell you but a hot meal you couldn't beat. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
“Any time a dining hall meal is eliminated it will be replaced from a plentiful stock of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat — or any one of several creative acronyms our Marines have come up with.)†Yep! Military Personnel the world over can answer that one. :) |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
After my 8 yeras in the USAF. I did a hitch in the US army reserve as a combat engineer. One weekend we did training and Fort Drum NY in october. It was a 40 degree F. cold rainy day. As my company made an over watch 3 of us went on a recon. We were soaked to the bone and cold. And yes we had ponchos on, Those things are useless. When we got back to the company they were getting ready to move out so we had about 10 minutes to eat. I grabbed a can of C-rations from 1968 ( this was in 1983 ) opened the lid and stuck in a bed of coals until I saw the grease start boiling. While waiting I put on a dry pair of wool socks. Let me tell you that can of pork slices tatsed so good. My warm belly and dry warm socks felt awesome. After the exercise evryone was anxiuos to hit the hot showers, and then hit the rack. So I guess you could say we had 3 hots an a cot. Soldiers like to bitch. Its when they stop is when youd better take heed. [/quote] Old James |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
Yep! Military Personnel the world over can answer that one. :) You have not lived until you have dined on Vietnam era cold ham & mofos (lima beans) C rats left over from WWII. R0TFLMA0... (^8 SF USMC RVN '69-'70 ... |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Yep! Military Personnel the world over can answer that one. :) Now now now, that is an MCI. MCI's weren't made until after the Korean war was over. This is a real C-Ration Circa WWII. |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
Despite the new name, the MCI was still popularly referred to by the troops as "C-Rations" (or "Charlie rats"), which it resembled in nearly all respects. We all know USMC only got the Navy's hand-me-downs. LOL Your C rats looks like what I knew as K rats when I was a kid. And pemmican bars too. Gawd is thread stirring up some memories. LOL It is too bad the troops are losing a hot meal but it is not the end of the world for them. Been there done that. SF ... |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
It was December 1983 and we were on a bivouac for some training in Ft McClellan Alabama. We were given C-rats produced in september of 1968. It was surprising how well the pork meals held up after all that time. The next field duty saw us getting the new MRE which were something to behold. Freeze dried meat that never reconsitituted, RETCH! In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
At least no one has posted that SOS is good ... |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
R0TFLMAO ... |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
At least no one has posted that SOS is good ... My father thought SOS was good. Being a navy man at sea in WW2 he loved SOS. Growing up hed have my mom make it for the whole family. Im no big fan of it, But when thats all you had for breakfast you ate it. Now corn beef hash is a very tatsy breakfast. [/quote] Old James |
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