Alot of times on a mission, you simply don't have the room for that much food. Even after you break down the mre and stuff it into your ruck.
You have so much equipment in your ruck, alot of weight due to water, ammo, radios, you get the idea. Which in turn, burns calories for carry the weight.
12 posted on 03/29/2007 9:55:35 PM PDT by Dacb
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Alot of times on a mission, you simply don't have the room for that much food. Even after you break down the mre and stuff it into your ruck.
That's exactly the problem that is mentioned later in the article: soldiers are field stripping MREs to reduce weight, and throwing away some of the calories in the process. So the military is looking to make food that takes up less space but has more calories.