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Eating well under the gun
The Boston Globe ^
| 3/11/2003
| Beth Greenberg
Posted on 03/11/2003 4:45:35 PM PST by Radix
Each single-meal MRE is targeted at 1,300 calories, and it's a challenge to get soldiers to eat all the nutrition they need.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eating; health; mre; soldiers
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To: cavtrooper21
Ham and Lima Beans!!! Ham and Mothers, I hated those. But I had a buddy who loved that crap so we traded all of ours to him for anything else.
Pound cake and peaches was one of my favorites. Oh the days of eating spagetti and meatballs 8 years older or more than myself. And the joy of using my trusty P-38 to open the tins. And we got the 4 packs of smokes for after chow.
To: FreedomFarmer
BAh!!!!!!! Fruit Cocktail. The powdered coffee and the johnny wayne bar (pounded into pieces with the butt of an M14) mixed together and heated in a canteen cup. To heck with Starbucks that was delicious in mid winter in Korea.
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03/12/2003 7:08:34 AM PST
by
FRMAG
To: patton
We used to freak out the newbies everytime we went to the demo range and "cooked" dinner with C4.
Of course there was the other time we were tired of MRE's. The demo range was next to a small lake. We did a little "fishing". The CO wandered by that night and wanted to know where my squad got the fish. I suggested that he might rather eat than ask questions. He agreed.
Semper Fi
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posted on
03/12/2003 9:48:54 AM PST
by
dd5339
(Lookout Texas here we come!)
To: dd5339
You spend far too much time playing with things that go boom!
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posted on
03/12/2003 2:11:37 PM PST
by
cavtrooper21
("..he's not heavy, sir. He's my brother...")
To: McCool
The burgers and pizza and stuff is available in places like Kuwait and Doha, where we have set up fairly semi-permanent deployment areas.
I never minded MREs, but I had the Desert Storm era ones and they sound like they've gotten a bit fancier now. The best part was the dehydrated fruit...it was like peach-flavored styrofoam which you're supposed to reconstitute with water, but everybody ate it like a candy bar. :)
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03/12/2003 2:21:54 PM PST
by
TheFilter
(Air Force Wife!)
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