us lrrps

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Post by norge » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:17 pm

us lrrp about 1960-70?
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us lrrp about 1970-80?
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have a great day ration people around the world from NORGE :D

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Post by mreheater72 » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:08 pm

Great pics!

Although I collect US Rations, I have never seen those before! I have no idea how old they are, but I guess the dark brown one is from the early eighties! Real interesting!

Best wishes mreheater72

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Post by norge » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:23 pm

hello
do you have some cool ration pictures?
ha en fin dag=have a nice day :D
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Post by dirtbag » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:18 pm

hi norge,
I had the 'pleasure 'of trying the chile lrrp in 1971, it was inedible. no matter how long you soaked the beans, they were hard as rocks...
they have been much improved since then :D
Nice collection !!!
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Post by kman » Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:02 pm

Good stuff! Those accessories look just like the ones in the 1960-1980 MCIs (c-rations). Did you try any of it? I tried one of those chocolate discs from 1978 and it wasn't bad...not really great, but still edible.

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Post by mreheater72 » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:38 pm

norge wrote:hello
do you have some cool ration pictures?
Hi norge,

unfortunately I haven´t such treasures as you in my collection! :(

But in a few days I will put some pictures of MRE entrees from the early eighties into the forum! I hope, thats a little bit interesting!

Einen schönen Tag noch = have an nice day!

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old style mres

Post by norge » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:29 pm

cool with more pictures :D
just have a few of the 80 mres,do you have
some for trade?
chers from norge :D

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Post by dirtbag » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:31 pm

As I recall, the LRRP I had came in a different bag, sort of cloth covered, with alu foil/plastic layers... but that was a very old one, probably late 60's, early 70's (it was new when I ate it...)
I was in the Navy then, and we used to carry UDT/SEAL types, do insertions/retreivals etc. I think we traded some coffee for the LRRP's. They got the better of the deal...
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Post by Lifesaver » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:33 pm

I can provide a little input here seeing as how I traded these LRRPs to Norge. The one with the grey/green bag is from the late 70's, about 1978 as I recall. I carried that one around for a while before it ended up in a box. The one with the brown packaging I got just before I was medically retired. So, that would have been late in 1983. At the time, these were the new kids on the block. They were touted as being better than the olds ones. They actually lived up to their press, too. I hope this helps a little.
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lrrps

Post by norge » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:35 pm

yes i got this cool rats from lifesaver,thanks :D
kman i have not tryed to eat some of this food,maybe il
feed my mother in law to see if its safe :lol:
ha en fin kveld fra norge

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