I have before me a little booklet dated 1985 titled "Canteen Cup Cookery" by Galen Geer (Desert Publications, Cornville, AZ). Written when the plastic pouch MRE's were still a novelty this "cookbook to enhance MRE's" is a 46 page booklet of recipes and tips. Of course the menu items have changed sin...

Back in '77 when I was given my first C-rations, my commander warned us that the rations were designed to "bind you up". Years later at my regular job a co-worker had been a BAR gunner in the Army in the Korean war. His worst memory was living outdoors with diarrhea and having to crap on frozen grou...