Vietnam. I bought the MRE’s as an emergency food supply, but after a decade plus I decided they had to have some sort of definite shelf life. They still taste fine to me, but my wife is not so sure.
I thought I recognized your methods.
I was a grunt in Nam, too. When in the rear we’d take condoments from the mess hall and spice up our C rations in the boonies. We only got a limited amount of MREs because they were new.
C 1/501 101st Airborne (Airmoble).
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