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Done it in Afganistan In a compound thro, not a ditch I still carry hexi in my webbing at all times when in the field. It's not that heavy and always useful.

Thanks for that! So "you" still do that? Once I saw at Andy McNab´s "Tour of Duty" (if I remember right) the "squaddie´s" were heating up their ration pouches in a big pot of water.
To me, that´s the biggest drawback of rations in a pouch. You always need a "pot" and (lot´s of) water to heat them or you pour the food into a pot (messkit etc) to heat it but can´t heat it directly on a cooker or in a fire like the old C-rat´s or like German EPa containers.

Housil

We pretty much always carry either a mess tin or a metal mug in our webbing. The training is that the hot water is used to either make a hot brew to drink with the food or used to wash & shave with in the morning. It's almost a pavlovian response, if we stop long enough we brew up, and 5 minutes can be long enough

Thx for this!