Clear plastic bag inside tan pouches?

[mikeoverhere]

A trick I just learned from Gundog, you can one of the bags like the thick outer bag and use it to make a bigger FRH, room enough for multiple components. Double bag means you still have a bag to hold the contents or use as a garbage bag.

[PhotonicCannon]

I generally don't mind the double bagged MREs, though I once had a Sopakco one where the inner bag was sealed and cut over a spot where the main was overlapping. It damaged the retort pouch, but nothing leaked at least (I still ate it. It was fine). I did also end up with some poor sucker's corner of a cracker pack lodged in the seal.

[Richard w.]

I'm glad that the inner bay is easier to rip open that the outer bay.

I have about a 50% success rate peeling the seal open on those with my fingers and I don't carry a knife as a habit.

I used to be stronger, honest.

[gschultz9]

This started as a result of the bag distribution bottleneck several years ago. When Ameriqual couldn’t get the outer bags, they opted to still pack them in the inner bags until they got their orders of outer bags delivered. This allowed them to keep up production schedules.

It is indeed great to have a little mystery solved! Thanks, Bob! I know that Ameriqual uses that "inner bag" as its outer bag for it's commercial A-Pack. Always wondered why they put it in the genuine ones (obviously the contents are different between the two, so it wasn't simply a matter of packing ALL their MREs in the inner bag and then "double-bagging" them into the government outer bags). While I never really understood WHY one company would do this when the others didn't, like Rocky, I've always appreciated it. I suppose it could be said that it increases the amount of packaging and trash generated by an MRE, but there's already so much a thin little outer (inner) bag isn't going to make much of a difference! And it IS a nice place to keep all the other trash.

[carlosflar]

Had a 8170 date code sopako, with double bag too

[carlosflar]

Had a 8170 date code sopako, with double bag too

i had another from the same box, 8169, not double bagged