The FReeper Foxhole Enjoys a Lazy Sunday.. The Unoffical MRE Recipe Booklet...Sunday Jan 29,2006

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[alfa6]

Lord,

Keep our Troops forever in Your care

Give them victory over the enemy...

Grant them a safe and swift return...

Bless those who mourn the lost.
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for all those serving their country at this time.


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THE UNOFFICAL MRE RECIPE BOOKLET



OR HOW TO HAVE FUN EATIN ON THE RUN



With the demise of the C-rations in the early 1980s and the advent MRES the McIllhenny Company stepped up and produced an updated version of the Charlie Ration Cookbook. In 1984 The Unofficial MRE Recipe Booklet was brought out with the help of the Bettle Bailey crew to help the GIs spice up their rations. So here is "The Unofficial MRE Recipe Booklet" or "How to Have Fun Eatin on the Run"

[snippy_about_it]

Darn, can't find it. Sarge is no help either, whining and wanting to play some more.

xoxoxo

[snippy_about_it]

That could be you. How's your flag pole holding up?

[Professional Engineer]

How the "San Juan Hill" did you remember that?

The mind is a terrible thing.

Um, er

I am an elephant, koo koo ka joo.

[Professional Engineer]

1)Don't play Trivial Pursuit with PE.

Heh heh heh

[Professional Engineer]

Please note PG is a stay at home mom, and my comapny doesn't allow telecommuting.

[Peanut Gallery]

51. The Neshoba County Fair is the largest of its kind in the nation, and is also known as The Giant House Party.

[Professional Engineer]

20. The rarest of North American cranes lives in Mississippi in the grassy savannas of Jackson County. The Mississippi Sandhill Crane stands about 44 inches tall and has an eight-foot wingspan.

The question any good wrrior wants to know; how far can they chuck a boulder?

[Professional Engineer]

Very well. We've gotta get a new flag. The small 3'x5' single piece of printed cloth versions only last 4 to 6 months.

[Professional Engineer]

[w_over_w]

LOL! It's PE's catch fair and square.

If you say it is so . . . then it is so. :)

[w_over_w]

Hope the sinuses are doing better. Give Sarge a pat . . .

xoxoxox

[PAR35]

36. The Natchez Trace Parkway, named an All American Road by the federal government, extends from Natchez to just south of Nashville, Tennessee.

Last time I drove through there, there was a big gap from I-20 west of Jackson to I-55 north of Jackson. So it extends from the Jackson metro area to each of those end points, but not from one to the other.

I see you have dealt with the cemetery issue.

I'm surprised they didn't deal with the petrified forest, or Casey Jones, or the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission.

[PAR35]

Now here is an interesting National Cemetery fact. Almost all of the National Cemeteries are under the control of the VA. (Click here: http://www.cem.va.gov/nchp.htm#MS ). But neither Arlington (under Army control) nor Vicksburg are on that list. Vicksburg appears to be under NPS control. Now, if you count the entire park instead of just the cemetery, you might be able to get the most acreage.

Here's another claim about Vicksburg: " Vicksburg National Cemetery has the distinction of having the largest number of Civil War interments of any national cemetery in the United States." http://www.nps.gov/vick/natcem/nat_cem.htm

Andersonville is also a NPS facility, as is Shiloh. So I wonder if the Vicksburg statement would be true of NPS National Cemeteries, or non - VA national cemeteries.

[w_over_w]

Again, your research is impeccable. I'm guessing that by the time the government statisticians said "2nd largest under NPS management", and it reached the webmaster it got watered down to "2nd largest".

[Professional Engineer]

bfl