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I had C-rats once in spring of ‘86. Ham and M-——F-——s.
It was not a pleasant experience, but I ate the crap without puking.
They were 15 years older than me at the time.
I’ll take an MRE any day. IMO.
a 70 year old cig will definitely put hair on your chest and possibly a few other places as well. LOL.
I was 18 at the time.
Had em just a few years earlier in NJROTC and a few years later at USNA - actually liked em. Prefer over MREs just due to the overall volume, though I understand the desire to limit the weight that MREs give you.
Ham & Eggs was the worst, but lucky for me I had a squad leader that liked the stuff and would always trade me.
Had an English prof in college who smokes Wings, and she could find WWii packs and would smoke them ... and that was in the mid sixties!
In Vietnam I was eating C’s 4 years older than I was. I loved them, especially when the Army transitioned to LRP’s. Several years later some airmen gave me MRE’s. Still prefer C’s. But MRE’s are far superior to LRPs.
I loved C-Rats when I was in; especially the pound cake and fruit cocktail.
I was in 1968 to 1973, most of the C-Rats were stamped between 1942 and 1953.
I recall eating C-rats at FT Sill, Oklahoma, in 1982 as I sat on my steel pot. It was pretty cool getting issued the new kevlar helmet. I couldn’t help but notice how similar the design was to the German WWII helmet.