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- Sat May 04, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: MREs
- Topic: First Brown Bag Open
- Replies: 4
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First Brown Bag Open
The 5oz entree means it is among the earliest issued MRE. Later meals had 8oz entree. Note the cryptic warning on the pouch “Not for Pre-Flight/Flight Use”. The only meal thus marked. Care to take a guess why that might be? This was not a popular meal with the troops for similar reasons. Ask your da...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: MREs
- Topic: New MRE Meal Pkg.
- Replies: 2
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MRE Meal Pkg.
It is kind of interesting- recall the 1980s packaging was a fair bit more substantial. They used a heavy outer cardboard sleeve on the box. This eventually went away. Boxes are still heavy duty, though a bit thinner. One of the requirements for rations is air drop capability on pallets. If they can ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: MREs
- Topic: Bill's Brew or Type I, II, or III
- Replies: 2
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Type I, II, or III
The Type II or Type I was the real deal as far as I’m concerned. Very finely powdered. Anecdotally, I purchased the Sbux “Via” on user reports and my first impression was “OK for freeze-dried”. My second impression was it reminded me of late MCI or the MRE Type II coffee! When I was a troop I needed...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: MRE Reviews
- Topic: 2003 Menu 17 Beef Teriyaki
- Replies: 1
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2003 Menu 17 Beef Teriyaki
Makes ya wonder, doesn’t it? Some items are fantastic, and discontinued. Some items are … not so good, and stick around forever.
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: MRE Reviews
- Topic: 1993 Menu No.6 Frankfurters, Beef Review
- Replies: 2
- Views: 948
1993 Menu No.6 Frankfurters, Beef Review
There were “improvements” to the Four Fingers of Death entree somewhere along the way. The earliest exemplars in the 1980s issue, they were pale in color and decidedly less appetizing, at least in appearance. Notice the rich Corinthian leather exterior color in your pic. They weren’t too bad, but I ...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: MRE Tips & Tricks
- Topic: Pork Sausage with Gravy
- Replies: 2
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Pork Sausage with Gravy
Tonite made a little experiment with a package of frozen Pepperoni in the freezer. Too lazy to make pizza dough, I surmised first that the MRE Tortilla are pretty tasty when fluffed up in a red hot cast iron. Pepperoni and Tortilla sounds strange, no. What else we got. Maybe that the MRE snackbread ...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:12 am
- Forum: International Rations
- Topic: Reproducing WWII British 24 Hour Ration Oatmeal Blocks
- Replies: 4
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British 24 Hour Ration Oatmeal
What kind of Oats did you use?
I’m betting “pre-cooked rolled oats” is a mis-translation along the way, somewhere. Try “Old Fashioned” rolled oats.
I’m betting “pre-cooked rolled oats” is a mis-translation along the way, somewhere. Try “Old Fashioned” rolled oats.
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade
- Topic: Available! Also, Review of rare Chinese PLA Compressed..things
- Replies: 4
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Discharged From Hospital, Also Review of rare Chinese PLA Compressed..things
I do need to sell some though to help with hospital bills.
Is there a connection?
Is there a connection?
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:38 pm
- Forum: MREs
- Topic: MCW main meals no longer produced by Mt. House?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5141
MCW
I meant once it gets out to the individual units … rations are kept in humid, non-climate controlled areas This is true! They didn’t keep my ass in a climate controlled warehouse either. MRE’s keep pretty well, it’s actually below freezing that will ruin them quicker than anything. Inexpensive vege...
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 10:48 pm
- Forum: MREs
- Topic: MCW main meals no longer produced by Mt. House?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5141
MCW main meals
The 3-year period is probably due to the sides and such and not the main, and also because the military is not the best at storing anything DOD does a great job of storing everything. They pretty much wrote the book on preservation and storage, mothballing, test inspection dates and the rest of it ...