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Hello guys, I got one rare thing I thought I will never get in my life.

Little intro video about the Army (in 1991. wars started, I'm keeping this topic in time before that without politics etc.)


Fist of all I want to show JNA M-69 Mess kit they used (click on thumbs for bigger images)


Clear writings: "Don't hold on fire" on plastic cups and canteen.


Main eating cup, water canteen, and two cups


With this mess kit it also came 3 piece utensil set you put inside of mess kit pouch. The knife has a canteen opener. Markings on utensils say KORDUNROSTFREIJNA.

SDO means SUVI DNEVNI OBROK, that would be roughly translated to dry daily meal soldiers used to get in ex- Yugoslavia. It was 24h meal.

SDO box closed


From above


How it opens


Opened




Contents outside of the box

Sardines



Can opener - they used to take shoelaces and tie on the keychan 2 or 3 like these just in case.



Budimka Fruit bar - date of production can be seen on the package



In this moment unknown can. Could be mutton or something like that.





Unknown can with meat luncheon



Meat luncheon - mesni narezak Gavrilović



Kvik cedevita orange energy bonbons (Cedevita is Tang like vitamin drink here in Croatia)





Domestic tea extract with sugar






With packs like this you would often get melba toast (zwieback) or just normal bread. Researching through ex-YPA soldiers forums I couldn't get any decent information about menues they had. They mostly speak where did they get SDO and how they eat it, what they liker/disliked the most. So I found out Navy had different packs, slightly better then this infantry one, and submarine crews had their own version. Some of this different SDO's had fruit hardcakes, cigarettes, even rum drinks.

And last but not the least info I got they hade SDO's for horses, mostly for mountain warfare or borderguard units who sometimes had horses with them.

i didnt know that something like that still exist!!!!!!

Great!
Thank you for sharing.

Wow, what a rare find, a 1990 Yugoslavian ration!

Wow, this is something rare... even present rations from former Yugoslavia countries are rare.

Great review! It brought back some Not So Great memories though. Once ate these when they we fresh.

Your photos are amazing this is a very interesting find. I have never seen a JPA ration before.
The Mess kit is one of the best,. It packs better than most and pouch can hold the utensil
What are the items marked VOCNA KOCK? and foil pouch EXSTRAKT DOMACEG CAJA?

Norton wrote: What are the items marked VOCNA KOCK? and foil pouch EXSTRAKT DOMACEG CAJA?

VOCNA KOCKA is FRUIT CUBE or BAR and and EXTRACT DOMACEG CAJA is something like DOMESTIC TEA EXTRACT WITH SUGAR..