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Portuguese Armed Forces -Individual Combat Ration-
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:00 pm
by gundog4314
The Ração individual de combate or Individual Combat Ration is designed for 24 hours. I've been looking for one one these for about a year when out of the blue a Portuguese Soldier offered to send me one of his field rations he didn't eat. Freakin' Awesome! So for all the forum to see Thanks Nuno! I will be doing a review on this and posting probably next week. Just a fyi there are two types this one that comes in a bag and one in a box. Here's a link for the "box type" right here on mreinfo from a 2012 pictorial:viewtopic.php?t=4772 The troops prefer the box as there is less breakage. Like the Estonian rations it is comprised of mostly off the shelf commercial items which is fine by me.
Well enough gabbing let's see some pics. I'll put the actual contents in the next post due to pic constraints.
Re: Portuguese Armed Forces -Individual Combat Ration-
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:02 pm
by gundog4314
Here's the innards as they were.
Re: Portuguese Armed Forces -Individual Combat Ration-
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:55 pm
by [ex-Member1]
When I saw the picture on your instagram I never thought this was a 24 hour ration! It looked like individual meal so this is a nice suprise. I must say the bag itself reminds me a lot of UN combat ration pack by colour, the print and size, beside that stove kit is exactly the same I had in my UN-CRP.
Can't wait to see the review.
Re: Portuguese Armed Forces -Individual Combat Ration-
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:53 pm
by SNiiP3R
That's awesome! I've been looking for these all over the web, found many of them, but sellers refuse to respond back.
They also have another version, in a carton box.
Re: Portuguese Armed Forces -Individual Combat Ration-
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:13 am
by cavguy
Nice pics! If I were a Portuguese soldier who got just one of these a day, I must say I would be a bit disappointed! The commercial cans kind of remind me of the main meals that come in Italian rations, not sure size wise though. I hope they are not as bland.....
Re: Portuguese Armed Forces -Individual Combat Ration-
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:23 am
by FREMONT
That's pretty neat! Looks very delicious.
Re: Portuguese Armed Forces -Individual Combat Ration-
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 4:32 pm
by parafireboy
Cool ration, thanks for sharing!
Re: Portuguese Armed Forces -Individual Combat Ration-
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 4:01 pm
by rationtin440
It looks like a good ration, but I assume the sardines are not boneless, don't know of any rations that have boneless sardines.