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Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:58 pm**

Just for fun, does anyone know the significance of the Crescent Moon printed on cases of U.S. issued military Food? My Daddy told me why, back in the mid '70's, when he bought a case of C-rats at the Arena. Yes, that case had the crescent moon also. I'm sure Kman will have the answer. Apparently, the crescent moon dates back to WW1 or before.

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:22 pm**

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:08 am**

The crescent moon is a US military symbol associated with food supply/distribution.

'Hierarchy of Military Symbols versus Emergency and Hazard Mapping Matrix' Full PDF File:
http://dept.kent.edu/geography/dymon/mi ... ymbols.pdf

"The military symbol looks like a crescent moon. Although it could be seen as a banana, it does not portray food distribution center very well"

Text only cached version of PDF file above:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ne ... n%22&hl=en

Pictures of Crescent Moon Symbol on C-Rations:
http://usarmymodels.com/ARTICLES/Rations/crations.html

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:17 am**

Key King, that last link to that website was really neat! I enjoyed reading it.

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:26 am**

Blue Oyster Cult has a cool song on their HEAVEN FORDID album called Harvest Moon. It seems like it would make more sense to put that kind of moon on a C-Rat or MRE container, but then again, I am no farmer and maybe a crescent moon makes more sense. At any rate, just a way for me to get one of my all time favorite bands into this forum...LOL!

BLUE OYSTER CULT - HEAVEN FORBID CD LINK
(go get the little kids and show them the beautiful cover art...LOL)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=music

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:04 pm**

I seem to recall R. Lee Ermey covering that subject awhile back. Something about Napoleon's conquests and croissants. The crescent derived from the shape of the croissant and more useful for those who were not literate.

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:43 pm**

Cultured but Illiterate.

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:25 pm**

deanopilot wrote:I seem to recall R. Lee Ermey covering that subject awhile back. Something about Napoleon's conquests and croissants. The crescent derived from the shape of the croissant and more useful for those who were not literate.

Good 'ole R. Lee Ermey, gosh how I love Mail Call. They need to quit screwing around with all of these other bullshit Seasons 1 and 2 of this and that and get all of the Seasons of Mail Call on DVD. I have the Mail Call Best Of collections, but that is not good enough...as R. Lee would say...DROP AND GIVE ME 20 MAGGOT!

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:18 pm**

Hey guys,
Here's a spinoff of the cresent moon question. I was reading the forum on the cresent moon last night and saw on Ebay this morning a British 10 ration pack unit being offered for sale. So naturally being interested I kept an eye on it and what did I see on the outside of the box but a three-leafed clover just like the cresent moon on our ration boxes. does anybody know what thismay mean? Is it similar to ours? Be interested to find out?

Posted: **Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:49 pm**

Treesuit:

It means "keep looking...until you find a four leaf clover" HA!