So did American troops during the 1991 *Desert Storm* Gulf War, who were photographed wiping down the ammunition for their rifles and machineguns with pork patties from their ration packs in front of enemy POWS, who were thereafter appropriately docile. The Evansville, Indiana M.R.E. packager Shelf Stable Foods was the helpful supplier of the pork patties, though the content of the rations has changed for varieties sake since then. But tinned sausage links will work just as well, though a bit more difficult to carry in the elastic band of a PASGT *K-pot* helmet.
