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where to get civilian MREs in the US?

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:27 pm
by German_EPA
hi all

a friend of me is visiting the US next week. i told him to get me some with back here. but: where to get civilian MREs in the US? walmart? gun store? ???

would be great if you can help me! maybe you know where to get which brand too. :D

so long... EPA

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:34 pm
by kman
Where's your friend going to be staying/visiting? Will he have a shipping address? How many MREs were you looking for him to bring back?

Finding civilian MREs in stores can be hit or miss. Army/Navy Surplus stores usually have something but they're usually pretty high-priced ($8 each). Then again...if he's converting Euros, everything will probably be cheap seeing what the exchange rate is. :-)

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:46 pm
by BigMark
+1 on what kman said. Have him look on craigslist.org for whatever city he'll be in, I find them on there from time to time for reasonable prices..

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:52 pm
by German_EPA
yeah - 1 euro = 1,50 dollar. there is many pro/contra with this... but thats another thing...

he is going to california / san diego - L.A.

the town where he is going to exactly i forgott.

i should have get mres on my visit to the us in 2003 - but in that time i didnt collect rations. Image

kman wrote:Where's your friend going to be staying/visiting? Will he have a shipping address? How many MREs were you looking for him to bring back?

Finding civilian MREs in stores can be hit or miss. Army/Navy Surplus stores usually have something but they're usually pretty high-priced ($8 each). Then again...if he's converting Euros, everything will probably be cheap seeing what the exchange rate is. :-)

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:29 pm
by BigMark
Yeah, believe when I make it to Germany I'm going to let you guys know ahead of time so I can have some stuff waiting for me. :) If I lived in that area I'd be glad to hook him up, but fortunately I don't. ;)

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:38 pm
by MCIera
You should have him contact MREDepot. Maybe he can arrange to have a few pallets shipped to Germany by container cargo? Or maybe even a shipping container or two? :) You could corner the market in the EU :lol:
German_EPA wrote:yeah - 1 euro = 1,50 dollar. there is many pro/contra with this... but thats another thing...

he is going to california / san diego - L.A.

the town where he is going to exactly i forgott.

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:27 am
by German_EPA
i was thinking of that. well - thats a PRO of the actually euro/dollar roller coaster... but what am i gonna do with 40 pallets?! apart from this i dont have that kind of money to buy that much... :?

the collector in me says: "YES YES YES"
the businessman in me says: "NO NO NO"

:lol:


MCIera wrote:You should have him contact MREDepot. Maybe he can arrange to have a few pallets shipped to Germany by container cargo? Or maybe even a shipping container or two? :) You could corner the market in the EU :lol:
German_EPA wrote:yeah - 1 euro = 1,50 dollar. there is many pro/contra with this... but thats another thing...

he is going to california / san diego - L.A.

the town where he is going to exactly i forgott.