Military Camp "Hammelburg" 2017

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Just came back from the (annual) Military Camp in Hammelburg, a German Army training area with the urban warfare training village "Bonnland". You may know "Hammelburg" from Hogan´s Heros or the "Task Force Baum" raid.

Here we go...

Mermite as "fridge" as we got up to 94F

Kept it cool for two days

2007 #5 MRE

For dinner after arriving

As on it´s first day

Our two crew tents

US table, German EPa for dinner

French ration and a Heater meal for dinner

cooked on a fuel cooker with (UK? Canadian?) mess kit

Cooking EPa entree on French ESBIT stove

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Neighbors are arriving...

A tiny supply for the next 6 days for one person...

My lunch, FSR sandwich

Someone ate a French salmon "Rillettes" - a canned fish

and a French lasagne

a real lasagne!!!

German EPa entree "Schupfnudeln" - kind of noodles - w/ meatballs

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Some more guys are arriving

A British camp site

For dinner we ate

A Spanish group ration

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Another British (radio operators) camp site

First dealers show up

Our "neighborhood"

Lets have another lunch

First time I ate FSR sandwich "wraps"

and I realy liked them

Lot´s of talking to others about military stuff and equipment

Lining up at the mobile kitchen trailer for dinner

BBQ

Burgers and fries

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Finde us...

We had up to 34°C (94F), so why do need peoples this:

a stove?!

Camp site starts to get crowded

Speaking of "crowded", time for lunch - a Korean freezedried ration

this is how you spell "very spicy" over here:

That´s why I had just some (2007 - 10 years old!) Tuna MRE:

Even with that age - great to eat!

Some cake?

A T-18 devils fudge cake

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Latecomers, had to stay outside...

Speaking of "late", lets have another dinner...

I "cooked" a T-18 "Spaghetti w/ meatballs" for everybody

This is how to feed a pack

Rest from all that eating in the evening and cool down

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Breakfast at the kitchen trailer

before gathering at the drivers briefing by an Bundeswehr official about the day at the active training site

The convoy into the training area

Dispatch riders

Inside the urban warfare training village of "Bonnland"

A real village with real streets, real houses etc. just nobody is living there

Houses half cut open so you can watch from outside how you fight inside a house room to room

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Lets move on to the next part - drivers training

Watch YT-Video over here:

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Back from that "excursion", somebody needed "first aid"...

to fix his fuel pump.

Speak of "fuel", here is what we had for dinner that day

Beef chunks w/ noodles T-18

Lucky us, that guy showed up for dessert...

this is how we lived there for 6 days

If you can get your hands on one of these:

Best "cake" ever!

It was not all about eating, also fixing lamps

Watching the neighbors

Having some entertainment on a real 1940 gramophone as they had at "Saving Private Ryan"

Bonefires

....and before someone ask´s, I lost 3 lbs

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Wow Housil! Hope you enjoyed. Im sure the British soldiers showed you a few things!