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Take a look at this two movies, form the official site of german bundeswehr

EPA part 1

und

EPA part 2

found it there

http://www.bundeswehr.de

best regards

jubifahrer

SUPER!

Danke Schön Jubifahrer!

It's the first time I see Volksarmee rations!


(do you think the guy who talks could be Schwabe? Is speaks like a former colleague of mine, from Friedriechhaffen )

Thanks for the links. Those look like pretty cool videos. Anyone have any English subtitles?

Ok...subtitles aside, can anyone provide a rough translation of what the videos are about?

kman wrote:Thanks for the links. Those look like pretty cool videos. Anyone have any English subtitles?

Ok...subtitles aside, can anyone provide a rough translation of what the videos are about?

How "rough"?!

Its about the story of the German Bundeswehr EPa (Individual Ration) from it´s beginning 50 years ago, untill today.
The development of newer rations for newer demands. With the end of the "cold war" in 1989, they concluded to reduce the storage of rations.
They also compared the Bundeswehr and NVA (former east german army) Rations.
With the new tasks, they recognized that a storage of 600.000 Ration will be necessary. So they developed new rations (EPa light) for their mission in Yugoslavia (SFOR, KFOR) Afghanistan (ISAF) a.s.o.
They explain that the rations are be packed by hand from 6 workers, 100.000 a year.

Packing from hand, early and still today:


Always a total amount of 600.000 in stock



Former NVA-Ration

(canned full grain bread)


Need some more?

That's perfect - thanks, housil. I figured that was what it was about but for a while there, it was looking more like history of just the German army from the cold war onwards. I got about halfway through the first video before I started fiddling around with my computer trying to figure out how to download and save both videos (which I eventually did).

kman wrote: (...) trying to figure out how to download and save both videos (which I eventually did).

You welcome

I can recommand you the WM Recorder:
http://www.chip.de/downloads/c1_downloads_13007351.html

Free downloand on english. I allways use it if I want to record a video stream. You can just paste the URL of the video and don´t have to watch it at its fully lenght.

Hi Olli,

i did the official way and called the contact on the hopmepage . They promised me an copy via postage

Bye

Rudi

Screenshots of second movie:

Food factory:


Two butcher at sausage machine:



Packing from hand:



(not out sourced, it´s a deparment of the Bundeswehr, packing it´s own rations, 800 a day)

Entree:


German airborns with EPa and EPa light



New group feeding (like T-18 ):

But made for 20 soldiers for a whole day

Beef olive, mashed potatoes and string beans

jubifahrer wrote:Hi Olli,

i did the official way and called the contact on the hopmepage . They promised me an copy via postage

Bye

Rudi

Thats so great, had the same though but had allready recorded the stream.
Let me know when it had arrived.

They also talk about 20.000 EPA sendet to hurricane victims in new orleans. But they tell that nobody needed them.

What happened with these 20.000 Epa ?

best regards

jubifahrer