***Ruy that is interesting about the c rations; you must have served in Nam or just before or after.***
here it is on line.
http://www.1stcavmedic.com/tabasco_cookbook.htm
Not much in there sounds good but when you are hungry, it's amazing what can taste good. Give me some Kikkomen soy sauce or other chinese seasonings, oyster sauce, yum, kimchee forget it.
Then I lost my place and was reading about a veteran who died from cancer that started in his kidneys from Agent Orange and spread until it killed him. VA wouldn't recognize it as due to AO. Sad.