MRE's Cost $47.00 EACH to manufacture?

[elehhhhna]

I found that gem in the last paragraph...

Texas Co. Using Illegal Aliens to Manufacture Troops MRE's


Employment firm pleads guilty to fraud charges (they falsified immigration forms -- e)
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

HARLINGEN - A San Antonio employment company has pleaded guilty to giving false information to FBI agents investigating a possible al-Qaida plot to poison military rations made in South Texas.


Remedy Intelligent Staffing, part of the San Antonio-based Tollin Group Inc., entered a guilty plea late Tuesday to a federal charge that it conspired to submit hundreds of falsified immigration forms to conceal the employment of undocumented workers at a McAllen food plant, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston.

The Wornick Co. hired Remedy to find temporary workers after receiving a $47.2 million government contract to produce 1.1 million Meals Ready-to-Eat for the invasion of Iraq.

[ohtransplant]

1. Who does their billing?

Halliburton?

[Tace]

2. That's About What I Would Think 1.1 Million Cases of 12 Would Cost

[elehhhhna]

3. It says 1.1 MEALS, not CASES of 12 meals.

The Wornick Co. hired Remedy to find temporary workers after receiving a $47.2 million government contract to produce 1.1 million Meals Ready-to-Eat for the invasion of Iraq.

[ret5hd]

4. shhhhh!!! this is how black-ops are funded...

don't tell me you believed they paid $500 for a toilet seat or $1000 for a hammer, did you. this is how things get done in the shadow world.

[elehhhhna]

6. I know they paid that much--Hubs worked for Gould when it happened!

They were the hammer co if I remember correctly.

He saw the invoices and lots of CYA memos.

[ret5hd]

7. yes, the gov't pays that much...

but you don't think the compamny keeps that much do you? like i said, thats how black ops get funded...the gov't pays, the company receives, the company kicks back a good portion to cia, pentagon, etc, those in the know at the company get to keep a cut. you know the drill.

[RobertSeattle]

9. THe gov't buys them by the case, not per MRE

I think the reporter screwed up. 4 bucks per MRE sounds about right to me. (Ate enough of them in my time!)

[charlie]

10. Yep, it's case lots

(Though, I'd hardly be surprised if it wasn't. Everybody's getting big schwag from Iraq. Except of course, the guys with guns pointed at them)

http://www.dscp.dla.mil/subs/rations/meals/z107.pdf

"Note: MREs contain 12 menus per case"

"Note: Box is the official issue of the MRE and HDR however cases and boxes will be used synonymously in this solicitation."

http://www.dscp.dla.mil/subs/rations/meals/7049.pdf

[elehhhhna]

11. Okay that's more like it.

[bleedingheart]

5. I only got a $50 a day meal allowance when I traveled for business

at that rate...the soldiers should be getting filet in those MRE's

[trogdor]

13. The could hire Emeril Lagasse to cook for them.

I mean, come on. For $50 a head, I can probably swing at least a two-star restaurant.

[Jacobin]

8. They don't call it "War Profiteering" for nothing

[Snivi Yllom]

12. its cases of 12 meals

http://www.mreinfo.com/buying-mres.html