What is this Ration Box?

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What is this Ration Box?

Post by DPerdue-12 » Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:46 pm

It looks like it says "RATION SUPPLEMENT SUNDRIES PACK"
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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 part with the rations start at around the 2:00 minute-mark.


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Post by housil » Sun Aug 21, 2016 10:39 am

DPerdue-12 wrote:It looks like it says "RATION SUPPLEMENT SUNDRIES PACK"
I found this via google.

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Re: What is this Ration Box?

Post by cavguy » Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:49 pm

Look at all those cigarettes!

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Post by Oldsmokey » Tue Nov 15, 2016 3:27 pm

housil wrote:
DPerdue-12 wrote:It looks like it says "RATION SUPPLEMENT SUNDRIES PACK"
I found this via google.



I know that this is an older post but I just found it and your link to the sundries pack. All I can say is WOW I'd love to find one of those packs still in tact.

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Re: What is this Ration Box?

Post by FREMONT » Tue Nov 15, 2016 5:07 pm

Oldsmokey wrote:
housil wrote:
DPerdue-12 wrote:It looks like it says "RATION SUPPLEMENT SUNDRIES PACK"
I found this via google.



I know that this is an older post but I just found it and your link to the sundries pack. All I can say is WOW I'd love to find one of those packs still in tact.
Chances are only a few still exist. They're probably in private collections and museums.
Good luck and may your rations stay unspoiled!

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Re: What is this Ration Box?

Post by steve1989 » Tue Nov 15, 2016 7:56 pm

I found some nice stock photos of The Ration Supplement, Sundries Pack.

From the one & only,The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center.


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What a beautiful thing - if any are left, they are most certainly in personal collections. I have no idea if there are any in the U.S. or abroad in Museums.. who knows?


And of course, there is probably one in some elderly widow's basement in Anywhere, USA - collecting dust.. maybe some mildew - and one day it will be found. :)


Thrill of the hunt!
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Re: What is this Ration Box?

Post by Oldsmokey » Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:11 am

steve1989 wrote:I found some nice stock photos of The Ration Supplement, Sundries Pack.

From the one & only,The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center.


1969-1970 DoP


What a beautiful thing - if any are left, they are most certainly in personal collections. I have no idea if there are any in the U.S. or abroad in Museums.. who knows?


And of course, there is probably one in some elderly widow's basement in Anywhere, USA - collecting dust.. maybe some mildew - and one day it will be found. :)


Thrill of the hunt!




Those really are amazing. I can't express that enough. Also I'm sure that somewhere out there they exist. Just where and when will they pop up is the million dollar question. I'd love to see one up close and personal. I'd probably grab it and try to hop away. There just my type of ration. "One of these days Alice one of these days"

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