2008 Case Pack

[DangerousDave]

I bought a case with date code 8265. Never saw pack like this.

[kman]

Cool...they just kind of jammed them in there however could, didn't they? In one of the cases of APack civilian MREs I just received, a couple of the MREs were turned sideways like that but I've never (before now) seen that in a case of military MREs. Who packed the case? Wornick, Ameriqual, or Sopakco?

[Treesuit]

Yeah,

I've seen that before on some half empty MRE 2008 cases. Seems whomever packed them threw them in all helter skelter like.

[DangerousDave]

This is a Wornick case(Cincinnati). Has the little sf on the bottom. Of course we know that does'nt mean "Special Forces". Got it at the C&E Show, today. as a matter of fact.

[DangerousDave]

Menu 18 is Beef Patty. Menu 24 is Chicken with Salsa. All others in this B case are per standard menu for late 2008 pack.

[mreheater72]

I have a case in my basement that is packed in a similar way. The Date Packed is 8/89 and it is from SO-PAK-CO. INC..



So long mreheater72

[DangerousDave]

I opened the #13 Tortellini. It has the apple cinn. first strike bar. Along with the fact the case had beef patty for menu 18, I think this was earlier than usual transition from year to year menu differences. I was wrong about the #24. Correct Chicken w/ Salsa, for 2008 though. It used to be the other way. Up to April-May pack dates of whatever year, were previous year menus, in my experiance.

[kman]

DangerousDave - over on this page:

http://www.dscp.dla.mil/subs/support/qa ... /index.asp

you can find the date-of-pack for various years to tell exactly when they started using the new menus. Here's what they say:

MRE XVIII (DOP Oct 1997 - Sep 1998)
MRE XIX (DOP Oct 1998 - Sep 1999)
MRE XX (DOP Oct 1999 - Sep 2000)
MRE XXI (DOP Oct 2000 - Sep 2001)
MRE XXII (DOP Oct 2001 - Sep 2002)
MRE XXIII (DOP Oct 2002 - Sep 2003)
MRE XXIV (DOP Oct 2003 - May 2005)
MRE XXV (DOP May 2005 - Apr 2006)
MRE XXVI (DOP May 2006 - Dec 2006)
MRE XXVII (DOP Jan 2007 - Dec 2007)
MRE XXVIII (DOP Jan 2008 - Present)

[Richard w.]

That's interesting that they seem to have adjusted the start of the new menu cycle to begin in January.

Good.

[kman]

Yes, talk about a confusing system - check out those dates for the 2004 menus - October 2003 through May 2005. That's quite a spread!