specific Air Force C-rats/MCI's?

[Stef]

Hello,
in the 80's I've had a US ration called "flight ration" or something like that.
It was almost identical to a MCI except this marking on the box, the flap was on the narrowest side of the box, there was a can of orange juice in the ration and also a toothpick called "interdental stimulator"!
In fact, I found the idea of calling a toothpick "interdental stimulator" so funny that I still remember the name 20 ou 25 years later

I think the entree in the box was a turkey loaf, or was it "beef & potatoes"...?

Do you know the kind of ration?

[olli]

i dont know about, but i know the interdental toothpick from c-rations...

[kman]

Stef, check out this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=394

It talks about the same type of MREs. It looks like these special "in-flight" MREs were specially formulate to reduce the painful affects of gas (and not the fuel-kind) at altitude.

[Stef]

i dont know about, but i know the interdental toothpick from c-rations...

Yes olli, I guess it was that kind of deadly weapon. I remember the "interdental stimulator" itself was made of orange plastic.

It looks like these special "in-flight" MREs were specially formulate to reduce the painful affects of gas (and not the fuel-kind) at altitude.

HAHAHA, I couldn't imagine it was in fact a "fart-free-rat"

Thanks for the info olli and kman

[DangerousDave]

After C-Rats(MCI's, whatever) were phased out about '82-'84+, the Air Force was still getting them, but the cans were not painted O.D. I bought a case of them about 1986 at a gunshow. Just like regular C-rats, but every can in every box was copper/tin colored. Heck, they even had the ham and eggs can, which I reluctantly took back to Kansas and gave to my Squad Leader, as a gift. LOL, but true story. Can't remember anything more, except all the cans in the case were gold-ish colored.

[Stef]

Yeeees, you're right: I remember this gold-ish color, just like on some hardware used outside (= TV antenna pipes for instance).
Obviously, camouflage is not essential in a plane.

[mreheater72]

[quote="Stef"]
In fact, I found the idea of calling a toothpick "interdental stimulator" so funny that I still remember the name 20 ou 25 years later

Hi,

here are two photos of different "stimulator interdental":



From bottom up:

Stimulator made of wood (2 each) still in wrapper: Front
Stimulator made of wood (2 each) still in wrapper: Back
Wrapper: Front and back
Stimulator out of wrapper
Stimulator out of wrapper, chewed to seperate fibers



From bottom up:

Stimulator made of plastic (1 each) still in wrapper: Front
Stimulator made of plastic (1 each) still in wrapper: Back
Stimulator out of wrapper

The stimulator interdental was entree of MCI Accessory Packets in the early seventies. In my collection is one Acce packed by SEAL BAG with a stimulator.

Its funny that the wooden stimulators also can be used as tooth-brush!

Greets mreheater72

[mreheater72]

A new attempt with the photos!


[quote="Stef"]

In fact, I found the idea of calling a toothpick "interdental stimulator" so funny that I still remember the name 20 ou 25 years later

Hi,

here are two photos of different "stimulator interdental":

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/7696/img02432kz.jpg

From bottom up:

Stimulator made of wood (2 each) still in wrapper: Front
Stimulator made of wood (2 each) still in wrapper: Back
Wrapper: Front and back
Stimulator out of wrapper
Stimulator out of wrapper, chewed to seperate fibers

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/49/img02421gk.jpg

From bottom up:

Stimulator made of plastic (1 each) still in wrapper: Front
Stimulator made of plastic (1 each) still in wrapper: Back
Stimulator out of wrapper

The stimulator interdental was entree of MCI Accessory Packets in the early seventies. In my collection is one Acce packed by SEAL BAG.

Its funny that the wooden stimulators also cab be used as tooth-brush!

Greets mreheater72

[kman]

Hope you don't mind mreheater72, but I fixed the IMG links in your first post.

[mreheater72]

No problem, thanks kman. Meanwhile I found out, how to insert photos (housil gave me a tip! )

Greets mreheater72