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Hello,

could someone tell me how to determine the date on a fsr?
The individual package has a date of 9234

Thanks!

They introduced those narrow bags (rather portrait vs older landscape orientated labels) for 2019 so it’s fresh

Thank you sir!

you can also tell by the camoflauge pattern in the backdrop

Militaryration_guy wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 2:29 pm

you can also tell by the camoflauge pattern in the backdrop

Didn't know that. Do older ones NOT have a camouflage pattern at all, or is it just different? When was that change made? I have 2017 and 2019 production FSRs and hadn't noticed a difference. Will need to do a side-by-side.

Rob

Teddydogno1 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:33 pm

Militaryration_guy wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 2:29 pm

you can also tell by the camoflauge pattern in the backdrop

Didn't know that. Do older ones NOT have a camouflage pattern at all, or is it just different? When was that change made? I have 2017 and 2019 production FSRs and hadn't noticed a difference. Will need to do a side-by-side.

Rob

The earlier ones have a digital camouflage background ones after about 2015 have a normal splotch camouflage pattern

The camouflage patterns on the FSR bags were referred to as follows;

1st Generation: Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP), also referred to as ACU by soldiers.
2nd Generation: Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP), also referred to as MultiCam by soldiers.

The prototype of the FSR ration was in a clear plastic wrapper with no camouflage. I am fairly sure there is more than one prototype variant of this ration.

In case you are curious, the reason for the pattern change on the FSR was the transition of the uniform worn by soldiers from ACU to MultiCam.

cavguy wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:03 pm

1st Generation: Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP), also referred to as ACU by soldiers.

The first ones I got in 2008 had UCP Also the 2011 ones I got