How did you discover MREs?

Zeiti · Post by **Zeiti** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:09 am

kman wrote:And BTW Paul, that's a good tip on finding NATO rations on ebay. If you can read a little German and/or French, try searching these sites for "ration", "rcir", or "einmannpackung":

http://www.ebay.de
http://www.ebay.fr

And as always, if you need some help reading the sites, just start here:

http://babelfish.altavista.com

and let the fish do the translating for you!

You´ll find the german rations as "EPA" 3-4 pages of results !

Post by **kman** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:44 am

Thanks for the tip, Zeiti! I've been wanting to get my hands on some German rations for a while but with the value of the dollar against the euro right now (and with shipping costs!), they're pretty expensive for us in the US.

Zeiti · Post by **Zeiti** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:31 am

kman wrote:Thanks for the tip, Zeiti! I've been wanting to get my hands on some German rations for a while but with the value of the dollar against the euro right now (and with shipping costs!), they're pretty expensive for us in the US.

You´re welcome

When I come to the US I´ll bring you one !

You might want to check out this site : http://www.bundeswehr.de/forces/040309_epa.php#1

Its all in german, but has some nice pics. It was from a recent comparison of combat food

Post by **kman** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:04 am

Cool article - thanks, Zeiti!

I went ahead and ran this through babelfish. Here's the English translation.

jenndolari · Post by **jenndolari** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:25 am

kman wrote:Hey Jenn - so how do you break up one MRE into two meals? Do you just eat half of eveything and save the rest? Sounds like that could get messy.

I'm not sure how I would break an MRE up into lunch and dinner, but I think breakfast and lunch would be easy - just eat the crackers/wheat bread and spread for breakfast and then the main entree and dessert for lunch.

That's kinda what I do. I have the crackers/spread/bread (or snack when available) for one meal, then have the main dish, side item and dessert for dinner.

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:55 pm

I figure they will let females in the Infantry, by the time that little girl is 18. She looks like an excellent candidate, to be a Grunt. LOL

Post by **DIRTYDAVE** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:09 pm

No my little girl is going to marry a rich doctor and live her continued life as the Little Princess that she does now...

223 · Post by **223** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:30 pm

In the early 90s a guy in the Shotgun news used to sell them and AR magazines. Bought a few of each back then. Except for a time in the mid to late 90s when USGov MREs were hard to find,been eating them on and off.

Post by **kman** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:05 pm

223 - yes, it seems like the govt. started cracking down on commercial reselling of MREs in the early to mid-90's. But once Ebay came along, there wasn't much they could do.

Oh sure, they tried. At one point a few years ago, they even managed to get all the MRE auctions shut down. But that only lasted a week or so and then they were back up.

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:18 pm

In the early '90s, the CID at Bragg cracked down on Soldiers selling them downtown. I heard it was because somebody got caught selling pallets of MRE's to some guy in Spring Lake. Just what I heard.

How did you discover MREs?

Hey Kman

90's crackdown on cases