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The black crescent on MRE boxes
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:18 pm
by mw509
I always wondered about the black crescent on the outside of MRE boxes. I finally found a website that explains why it's there
http://www.olive-drab.com/od_rations_crescent.php
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:41 pm
by Roundeyesamurai
It's intended to be reminiscent of the window cutout on an outhouse door
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:27 am
by fdsman
Ah, yes! The true meaning! No wonder why they taste so bad!
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:34 pm
by deanopilot
Alas, all these questions and more will be answered on the March 9th episode of Mail Call: Mark V Special Ops Craft/Gunboat/German Paratroopers & Junkers/M113 APC/K-Rations: #51, 9:30am and 3:30pm EST. R. Lee Ermey tells all!
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:46 am
by MreKampr
lol
I Hear It Represents The Average I.Q. Of The The People That
Make Our Mres
A Full Circle Being Roughly Equal To Normal I.Q.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:38 pm
by kman
Deanopilot - so did you catch that episode of Mail Call? It sounds like one I might have seen sometime last year where they talk about K-rations and C-rations and they even bring on a collector who had an original c-ration and he opens it up (spoiler: it ain't pretty).
And btw mw509 - thanks for tracking the info down about the crescent symbol. I'll have to save that page for future reference (meaning = for when I forget again where the symbol came from).
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:16 pm
by rob_lankford1969
I work one of the plants that make MRE's the cresent doesn't represent the IQ ok well mabe a couple but not all lol
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:27 am
by FallschirmEater
I always mistook these as food supplies intended for the Middle East "Red Crescent" (Their version of the Red Cross)...
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:27 pm
by deanopilot
FallschirmEater wrote:I always mistook these as food supplies intended for the Middle East "Red Crescent" (Their version of the Red Cross)...
Well, they are food supplies and most are destined for the Middle East, so don't feel too bad.
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:30 pm
by deanopilot
kman wrote:Deanopilot - so did you catch that episode of Mail Call? It sounds like one I might have seen sometime last year where they talk about K-rations and C-rations and they even bring on a collector who had an original c-ration and he opens it up (spoiler: it ain't pretty).
Sorry Kman, missed this post. I also missed the March episode. Tivo missed it too, or it wasn't as advertised. I did see it many "moons" ago, and seem to recall that the crescent symbol went all the way back to Napoleon and frency food-croissants...FWIW.