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The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:14 am
by amram
Just curious, is there an MRE or Vintage ration that you consider to be the rarest/holy grail?
Sorry if I have posted this in the wrong spot, I know I have a bad habit of doing that!
- AM RAM
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:42 am
by norge
this are pretty rare
first run mre
rcw 1989
(al pictures from my collection)
cheers ken
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:01 am
by steve1989
Ken, your case of rafcos has both bands on it still and looks really nice!
You do have some nice holy grails there. The prototype MRE is just amazing to see.
Here are a couple of mine including a case of 1980 MREs with a 2 year instead of 3 year inspection. Huge thanks to Sentient Tootsieroll for helping me find that one.
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:21 am
by rationtin440
Actually those white pouch cold weather rations were not bad. Back in the day my unit accidentally got shipped a pallet or so of cases. JMHO, they could have been the first US 24 hour ration; problem was you needed a @#$%-load of water to re-constitute them.
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:23 am
by amram
Ken, Steve,
Very cool rations there! First run/prototype stuff is always really neat to see! Thanks for sharing!
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:56 am
by ItCameFromThailand
norge wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:42 am
this are pretty rare
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DSCN7792_zps7b657bf9.jpg
first run mre
2rcw 1989.jpg
89 1.jpg
rcw 1989
(al pictures from my collection)
cheers ken
How do you know the date on these cold weathers? I found some for sale that look just like this, but there is no date that I can see.
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:57 am
by ViperGTS
Btemple recently got an Australian 5 man CR5M, super rare , but modern, it was likely pretty expensive.
Steve had to rent a warehouse to store his collection
... probably.
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 12:45 pm
by BTemple
ViperGTS wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:57 am
Btemple recently got an Australian 5 man CR5M, super rare , but modern, it was likely pretty expensive.
Steve had to rent a warehouse to store his collection
... probably.
You would be surprised by how relatively cheap it was.
The CR5M was certainly my Holy Grail, I still can't believe I have one!
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 1:20 pm
by amram
BTemple, Post a pic by chance?
Re: The Holy Grail of MREs/Rations?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 1:27 pm
by BTemple
amram wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 1:20 pm
BTemple, Post a pic by chance?
Here's a few. I put an unboxing video of the contents up on my channel too.