Posted on 03/29/2022 11:01:51 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
A Russian millionaire arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Raleigh. New social media video of expired Russian military food. A stalled 40-mile long Russian military convoy in Ukraine. WRAL Investigates found they may all be connected.
Video circulating on social media reportedly shows a Ukrainian soldier mocking Meals Ready to Eat, or MREs, given to the Russian military. The packaging shows they were made in 2013 and expired in 2015, yet are on the battlefield today, 7 years later...
The label on the expired food, written in Cyrillic, translates to a tie back to an infamous criminal case in Raleigh. Federal investigators say Voentorg is the company Leonid Teyf used to get $150 million in kickbacks on Russian military contracts. Teyf and his wife were arrested back in 2018 when the FBI raided their mansion based on a murder-for-hire plot, bribing a public official, tax return issues and immigration violations.
At the time of the deal, Teyf had connections to Russian oligarchs who are now the target of financial sanctions. One of those oligarchs is Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest confidants... Investigators say Prigozhin’s network of companies was involved in the Teyf scheme.
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
Putin gave an enormous sum of money for the purpose of bribing a network of Ukrainian politicians and local government leaders in order that Russian troops would be greeted as liberators.
Reports are that the recipients of the money took it and absconded, without distributing it to the network of Ukrainians.
Who'd've thunk it?
There's no honor among thieves!
In Basic Training (1966) we had C-rations made for the Korean War (1950’s). ........................ That’s because you guys were tough, you were the off spring of the boys of the 40’s. Pop and Grandpa wanted you to experience the great menu they had. You always got a hot meal so long as you kept the truck engines running. Don’t complain or we’ll send you a can of lima beans and ham or scrambled eggs.
Thanks for the picture.
I think I see the problem. Compare the packaging to a US MRE.
In 1962 while I was serving in The Navy a shipmate and I were tasked with cleanout of a 50’ utility boat. We opened a little used storage compartment and discovered emergency rations that had been packed during WWII.
As an ex-concentration camp inmate I recall that air-dropped c-rations were mana-from-heaven to me. The spam was awesome, the crackers and cheese spread was delicious and the vitamin pills helped me survive beri-beri. Don’t get me started on the delicious chocolate bar. C-rations are yummy.
USAF food on a radar station in AK was nothing to sneeze at. Midnight chow was the best.
It's a matter pf perspective, and I accept yours. Bless you.
Very strange...
In Korea (late-1951 & 1952) we were eating left-over WWII era rations...
Newer rations must have arrived in 1953 or later...
“Expired Rations? That never happens lol. I even have a leftover can of C-Ration ham slices. I wanna open it, but I kinda don’t. I wonder what a Russia MRE has in it anyway?”
Those ham slices may currently be considered a WMD. Or at least a form of biological warfare.
A local fella came home from Vietnam and very firmly told his parents if there was ham or lima beans on the table he would eat elsewhere. AFAIK he has eaten neither to this day.
There is a YouTube channel where some people eat MRE’s from other countries. They liked the U.S. MRE but weren’t very happy with the Chinese version.
Here is a Russian guy testing a Russian MRE. Haven’t had the time to watch it yet.
https://youtu.be/FfOTmfwRTFs
My dad served in North Africa during WW2. They cooked on the jeep hood.
Were you on the mainland or one of the islands? Wonderful guy I knew Bernie Ausbrooks said his two best years in the AF were the two years on an island in the Aleutians.
I never ate on a sub but I know that at the chow hall on KISAFB in the 80s we were fed really well. They had won best chow hall in SAC a couple of times. I had some friends that worked down at the chow hall that said it was because we had a civilian chef of some small degree of fame that came out of retirement because he was bored that taught them how to do things.
You would think that in a situation where young men can get burgers and pork steaks or whatever that everyone would be over in the main lines.
Our chow hall there had islands set up in the dining area with self serve soup and a couple of other things. You wouldnt guess it but that is were some of the longest lines were. Nope, not some sort of beef stew or something that you might think they wanted. It was the cream of broccoli that seemed to really generate unusually long lines.
I’m subscribed to his channel.
In the army, the Cav always had good chow halls. The best I ever went to was at Camp Jackson, Korea.
Nice hiss!
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We had those in our deployment packs for Iran over a decade later.
Yep.
Except the cigarettes and gum.
Plus, I got a nifty can opener called a P-xx.
Guess.
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