I visited my mom this past holiday and went rummaging through the basement. I found a box of vintage brown bag MRE's that I had long ago placed in the basement. These were the oldest in my collection, having squirreled them away after training between 1985 and 1990. Around 2000, I opened some up but...

When I came back from Basic in 1985, I was demonstrating a Diced Turkey and Gravy MRE to a friend who then tried to feed some of it to his cat. She sniffed, but would not touch it! In Oct 2000, I was travelling in Jamaica and had the Dice turkey MRE on me for a late night snack. A stray cat entered ...

Norton wrote:Also I remember this basic message format being used in Army Signal School 79'.. Text layout and the unclassified block on top.
It was nostalgic

Was that when the signal academy was still at Fort Monmouth, NJ?