The black crescent on MRE boxes

mw509 · Post by **mw509** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:18 pm

I always wondered about the black crescent on the outside of MRE boxes. I finally found a website that explains why it's there

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_rations_crescent.php

Roundeyesamurai · Post by **Roundeyesamurai** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:41 pm

It's intended to be reminiscent of the window cutout on an outhouse door

fdsman · Post by **fdsman** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:27 am

Ah, yes! The true meaning! No wonder why they taste so bad!

deanopilot · Post by **deanopilot** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:34 pm

Alas, all these questions and more will be answered on the March 9th episode of Mail Call: Mark V Special Ops Craft/Gunboat/German Paratroopers & Junkers/M113 APC/K-Rations: #51, 9:30am and 3:30pm EST. R. Lee Ermey tells all!

MreKampr · Post by **MreKampr** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:46 am

lol
I Hear It Represents The Average I.Q. Of The The People That
Make Our Mres
A Full Circle Being Roughly Equal To Normal I.Q.

Post by **kman** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:38 pm

Deanopilot - so did you catch that episode of Mail Call? It sounds like one I might have seen sometime last year where they talk about K-rations and C-rations and they even bring on a collector who had an original c-ration and he opens it up (spoiler: it ain't pretty).

And btw mw509 - thanks for tracking the info down about the crescent symbol. I'll have to save that page for future reference (meaning = for when I forget again where the symbol came from).

rob_lankford1969 · Post by **rob_lankford1969** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:16 pm

I work one of the plants that make MRE's the cresent doesn't represent the IQ ok well mabe a couple but not all lol

FallschirmEater · Post by **FallschirmEater** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:27 am

I always mistook these as food supplies intended for the Middle East "Red Crescent" (Their version of the Red Cross)...

deanopilot · Post by **deanopilot** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:27 pm

FallschirmEater wrote:I always mistook these as food supplies intended for the Middle East "Red Crescent" (Their version of the Red Cross)...

Well, they are food supplies and most are destined for the Middle East, so don't feel too bad.

deanopilot · Post by **deanopilot** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:30 pm

kman wrote:Deanopilot - so did you catch that episode of Mail Call? It sounds like one I might have seen sometime last year where they talk about K-rations and C-rations and they even bring on a collector who had an original c-ration and he opens it up (spoiler: it ain't pretty).

Sorry Kman, missed this post. I also missed the March episode. Tivo missed it too, or it wasn't as advertised. I did see it many "moons" ago, and seem to recall that the crescent symbol went all the way back to Napoleon and frency food-croissants...FWIW.