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by DPerdue-12
Sat Mar 31, 2018 6:10 pm
Forum: MRE/Ration Videos
Topic: MCIs and LRPs in a video
Replies: 0
Views: 2637

MCIs and LRPs in a video

This video shows GIs in Vietnam hydrating and eating LRPs (at minute-mark 9:15):
by DPerdue-12
Sun Jul 09, 2017 7:39 am
Forum: Military Videos
Topic: Soldiers Eating LRPs in Vietnam
Replies: 3
Views: 4117

Soldiers Eating LRPs in Vietnam

The segment is at 4:12 to 4:34

by DPerdue-12
Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:04 pm
Forum: International Rations
Topic: South Korean Vietnam-era Rations: 1969
Replies: 0
Views: 2366

South Korean Vietnam-era Rations: 1969

Take a look at minute mark 1:07 of this 1969-dated video: https://youtu.be/YrmrcTyhl_I It shows some South Vietnamese soldiers being trained by South Korean troops of the "Fierce Tiger" brigade; and the Vietnamese guys are eating South Korean rations with, what looks like, U.S. MCI-style rations wit...
by DPerdue-12
Sat Aug 20, 2016 7:22 pm
Forum: International Rations
Topic: Vietnam era PIR
Replies: 19
Views: 36723

Re: Vietnam era PIR

Here are some videos of PIRs:
"Montagnard Soldiers Unload PIR Rations..."





(the PIRs are shown at around 2:34 minute-mark on this video)
by DPerdue-12
Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:46 pm
Forum: MREs
Topic: What is this Ration Box?
Replies: 6
Views: 6185

What is this Ration Box?

It looks like it says "RATION SUPPLEMENT SUNDRIES PACK" Screen Shot 2016-08-20 at 5.39.49 PM.png It comes from this video at YouTube. You can also see some soldiers (ARVNs?) receiving some combat rations from a box, as well as US soldiers eating "hot A rations" as I remember them being called. The p...
by DPerdue-12
Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:51 pm
Forum: MREs
Topic: What kind of ration box is in this photo?
Replies: 10
Views: 11299

Re: What kind of ration box is in this photo?

I asked my two Korean friends specifically about SPAM and Corned Beef this morning. I also asked my closest Korean source today about Spam and other tinned meats you open with a key. This person said that his family never ate SPAM or other tinned meats, although other people in Korea clearly loved ...
by DPerdue-12
Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:45 pm
Forum: MREs
Topic: What kind of ration box is in this photo?
Replies: 10
Views: 11299

Re: What kind of ration box is in this photo?

Brings back memories. Two tours in Korea, 1976-78, then 1982-83. Haven't been back since. I lived downtown just about all the first tour and all the second tour. Yes, now people just pick up a cell phone... In Korea these days, the problem is that they can't put them down! Everybody's little world ...
by DPerdue-12
Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:57 am
Forum: MREs
Topic: What kind of ration box is in this photo?
Replies: 10
Views: 11299

Re: What kind of ration box is in this photo?

Hey, I'm amazed that you guys like to eat these! I hated most of the MRE menus from the late 1980~early 1990s when I was in. Well, I like watching you guys try them out on YouTube, anyway. Yes, the Koreans were known to love SPAM. This is a result the war, and probably came from military and UN food...
by DPerdue-12
Sat Jul 16, 2016 12:07 pm
Forum: MREs
Topic: What kind of ration box is in this photo?
Replies: 10
Views: 11299

Re: What kind of ration box is in this photo?

I have more photos if you guys want a fuller scoop on this one - not really sure if it has all been pieced together into one whole thread yet & maybe that could be done! :) Thanks, Steve. Yes, please do create a thread on these, or maybe even a video(!) if you have enough visual material. I'd love ...
by DPerdue-12
Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:29 pm
Forum: MREs
Topic: What kind of ration box is in this photo?
Replies: 10
Views: 11299

What kind of ration box is in this photo?

I have a photograph here of some GIs handing out their leftover parts of their combat rations to some Korean kids. Not sure if it's from the Korean War, but the condition of the kid's clothing, its color, and style seems to match the time period of the U.S.Occupation (1945~1948) and Korean War era. ...