Steve, is there any information as to the branch or unit, location and date? I'm thinking maybe these are Marines, possibly due to uniform type and style of wear, but I'm not really sure. I can say it is important not to call Marines "Soldiers", while this might be technically true, they seem to hav...

Interesting and thanks for sharing. Any idea how or where it was stored, must have been under controlled conditions. I noticed they believed 5 grams of freeze dried coffee made a cup. It's less than half of that now, and no ciggies. No wonder they can't make their recruiting quotas.

"Rancid glue" your descriptions are perfect, or at least close enough. The nose knows "that $@it ain't right!", sometimes Canola will turn really gnarly with varnish or paint like odors, but I don't see that listed. Another possible culprit, Parmesan is cultured by pretty much the exact same bacteri...

Just break up a "Beef Patty, Chunked and Formed, Restructured, Mechanically Separated, Grill Marks Added"* and you'll be all set.


*Nothing is too good for our boys in uniform!

If you don't mind, have a question on how these meals compare with the approx. 1200 calories total the military issue have? Thank you!

Dang, sounds like a feller could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that stuff.

Hey everybody, been out of the hobby for quite a while. Was pretty sick, but a new kidney and liver later I finally have an appetite and can enjoy rations again! I’ve been sampling more recent MRE additions since the last lot I bought in 2012 One would think you would have learned your lesson by no...

I'm a little surprised someone hasn't taken up the slack and offered these in recent years, not necessarily a reproduction MCI, but with the popularity of "prepping" it would be an easy sale, I think. MRE are similar, but canning items offers a certain level of security and durability. I did like th...

Yeah, it turned out to be kind of a big deal as such things go, and he got into some trouble. For one thing they were spending a lot of money on the space program, in those days they actually passed budgets and had to get money from taxpayers, and any bad publicity whatsoever, of any kind, was consi...

"If it's good, they'll stop making it." Seems to hold true. I liked the "Buffalo Chicken", nice and hot, with genuine chicken breast. That's possibly my biggest complaint, whoever invented "Meat Glue" should be sent to Gitmo. Once they started using floor scrap waste and molding it into chunks, the ...