Military camp with lots of rations

[housil]

We had our annual Military Camp at German Army (Bundeswehr) Combat School in Hammelburg. We ate rations for 5 days from different countries so I post it here at "off topic".

Our setup

You could either have food 4 times a day from the mobile kitchen trailer

buy local

or bring your own food like we did.

Our camp neighbors

(Can you guys hear that Reo noise?! )

Dispatch riders

Our column driving over the training area

Old Russian tanks for target practicing

Using my IR night vision

[housil]

An areal overview of the camp:

(Maybe you hear now the M*A*S*H theme?!)

So here is about the rations part:

Out of a UK multi climate ration

A Cola beverage out of a UK multi climate ration

My dinner, chicken w/ cornbread stuffing

UK multi climate ration breakfast

Very yummi!

A (€2.99) cereal bar out of the UK multi climate

great taste

MRE lunch, chicken w/ noodles

UK entree

Very spicy

Sorry for the wrong color of the camping stove...

Pot set to heat EPa entrees for dinner

EPa dishes, curry sausage w/noodles & turkey patties w/ curry rice, 1990 canned bread and American grape soda

[housil]

Breakfast

Scrambled eggs out of German beakfast UGR

10 servings

2008

reconstituted

The lid is also a fry pan, used on a 1965 Enders Diesel fuel stove

Adding the egg

Scrambled eggs on a buttered slice of bread, coffee, tea and cocoa out of mess tin and UK isolation mug

Lunch

Heating entrees in canteen cup

Afternoon is coffe & cake time in Germany, so T-18 Golden Harvest Cake w/ icing

Blueberry cake w/ maple syrup - *very* yummi!

[housil]

Another dinner:
German UGR freezedried pea stew:

Boil 3 ltrs of water

The freezedried 2005 (!) pea stew

stir into boiling water

cook for 10 min

Enjoy your meal

I had my drone with me and made a little video about the camp and the tour into the training area:

[steve1989]

Housil, this has to be one of the absolute coolest overall reviews on MREinfo.
I would love to see something like this here in the US, with the rations and those awesome vehicles.
I watched the YT vid (just subscribed too!) and I think it was extraordinary all those Trucks & Jeeps! Wow!!

I absolutely love how you did the Blueberry UGR cake -I had one recently but mine didn't have the syrup!
That other cake looked amazing too!
And all those MRE's and the EPA's.. makes my mouth water!
Those UK Rations look great - I don't consume Aspartame so I would have given that drink to a friend. The Porridge looked nice & simple for a palatable breakfast meal.

You're the man, Housil! Thank you for sharing your awesome experiences and ration photos!

[Norton]

This looks like a great camp. Thank you for posting the pictures
First little off topic but I have to mention the Old Flecktarn gear is classic. I have a few pieces and when I wear it people comment in a positive way. Even those people who are not what you would term Outdoors type. The Enders stove is also a classic piece of outdoor gear, both military and civilian .

Now as for the rations. For me would love to try that freeze dried Pea meal on a winter camping trip.
It looks like a great cold weather meal. How did it taste? and did you eat it with Military ration bread?
I can see that with some Rye bread, heated via steam from the boil.

The older Warsaw Pact tanks, are they former 1970's early 80's NVA ?

[housil]

steve1989, tzhank you for your kind words!!

Now as for the rations. For me would love to try that freeze dried Pea meal on a winter camping trip.
It looks like a great cold weather meal. How did it taste? and did you eat it with Military ration bread?
I can see that with some Rye bread, heated via steam from the boil.

The older Warsaw Pact tanks, are they former 1970's early 80's NVA ?

The pea stew was similar to the canned one we had before (Camp 2013)

Usually these pea stews are rich and have a nice salty taste from it´s bacon. But causes you lot´s of "entertainment" at night

The rye bread is from UGR cans, each are 500g. They are the same as used in the German EPa´s with 170g

We didn´t heat it.

So for the tanks, these are "left overs" from former East Germanys NVA.

[Norton]

(Can you guys hear that Reo noise?! )

Dispatch riders

As in Diamond Reo truck?

Also what sort of Motorcycles are those BSA? Triumph? Norton? Enfield? DKW? NSU ? Zundapp? BMW? CZ? Ural? JAWA? Huskavana?
All fine dispatch bikes

[norge]

Housil

im impressed,so now im planning a tripp to germany next year me and erlend

so many cool trucks,tents,and much more and of course eating rations

cheers ken and erlend

[housil]

As in Diamond Reo truck?

That one

Also what sort of Motorcycles are those BSA? Triumph? Norton? Enfield? DKW? NSU ? Zundapp? BMW? CZ? Ural? JAWA? Huskavana?
All fine dispatch bikes

These were German made "Herkules K125".

Nowadays we use BMW 1200 (onroad) and BMW 650 (offroad).
See video about motorbike school, just 20 min far from my place