DU VETS!!! Favorite MRE??

[matcom]

:puke:

was it the Chicken Ala King?
the Beef Patty with "gravy"?
the Stews?

name some others. i can't remember them all (thankfully) right now

oh yeah and :puke:

[Career Prole]

1. I was a carrier sailor...

We made out better the Army and Marines on the chow, all things considered.
Please don't hate me for my chili-mac! :)

[XNASA]

8. Me too. The FDR.

Spent a little time on the Connie and the Kitty too.

But Navy chow isn't bad really. At the time, I was still quite young, so I hadn't really developed any kind of epicurean sense. It was all the same to me.

I just bought some ingredients to make 'Sh*t on a Shingle' sometime this week. That's one Navy specialty I'll never tire of, well, actually it's more for our boys. They love it.

[Career Prole]

16. I was on the Ranger, in the airwing

VF-21, to be exact. Randy "Duke" Cunningham was the skipper of our sister squadron, VF-154. First Vietnam ace. He was a pretty cool guy, but then he became a republican. The only hostility I was directly involved in was when there was an overflight by a Soviet 'Bear' taking pictures and the captain invited all hands available to the nearest weatherdeck to "give our Russian friends the international peace sign". *sigh* It all seems so childish now. :D

[dolo amber]

2. OMG!

:puke:

I dated this guy a few years ago who LOVED those things (was never in the service) so much, he'd go to a local flea market to buy them! There was an old grizzled vet there who always had a supply of them which had "fallen off the back of a supply truck". ;) GOD knows how old they were (or does that even matter with those things? :shrug:)

The one benefit to his little fetish was the heaters...when you put several in a 2-litre bottle... :nuke:

:D

[jmowreader]

23. Age matters with MREs

The retort pouches MREs are packaged in haven't been proven to last as long as cans. The government likes to turn them over every couple of years.

[Narraback]

3. I am stange but I liked the C Rats better. Plus you could ..

get a "John Wayne" (small can opener that could carry on key ring).

[fknobbit]

9. inedible bread and MF's ahhh yes remember it well

Still have my JW since the 60's even after multiple moves. MRE's were long after my time.

[oneighty]

12. Them sea rats pretty good.

Wharf rats lots meatier.

180

[DS1]

4. worst - omelet with ham

Ham Slice was a gift if you were eating next to a guy that got Omelet with Ham. Pork Chowmein (which came in around 94) was quite good, but they never got the hot sauce factor right and you had to trade your M+Ms for a bottle of Tabasco.

[dolo amber]

6. Oh yeah, I forgot the Tabasco...

I used one of those bottles as my Halloween costume...I carried it around, and when someone asked why I wasn't dressed up, I'd whip it out and say "I am... I'm a giant!".

This amused me greatly. :D

[jmowreader]

24. Never, never deploy without Tabasco!

I screwed up bad on this...the company that makes Tabasco sells a Tabasco holster for your load-bearing equipment. It is made of ballistic nylon with an attachment clip on the back so you can hook it to your pistol belt, and a standard table-size bottle of Tabasco fits in it. I never got one, and they're essential to the modern American soldier.

Fairly early in my career, I bought an old M-60 ammo can from Grandpa's on Fort Campbell Boulevard in Clarksville, Tennessee, and painted it red. Every time we went to the field, we made sure it was in the vehicle before we deployed. Our battalion commander, "Cactus Jack" McGuinness, always walked the line before we went to the field to make sure we had all our necessary equipment. "You got the red ammo can, Jim?" "Yes sir! Eyes of the Eagle, Sir!" Naturally, it had sixteen new bottles of Tabasco in it when we rolled off the ready line in the motor pool. And when we got back to the rear, it was always empty. Sixteen bottles would last a 250-soldier company ten days, easy...unless you were trading it for diesel, in which case one unopened bottle of Tabasco is good for at least five gallons of fuel.

That was for C-rations. For MREs you'd never make it to the end of a ten-day exercise on sixteen bottles of Tabasco; fortunately for me the 10th Mountain never stayed out that long. Those dinky-ass bottles of Tabasco just don't do it for me.

I have no idea what I'd do in a real war--they'd probably be airdropping me skids of this stuff on a weekly basis.

[NightTrain]

5. Who here ever ate creamed chipped beef on toast?

Or, as it was more colloquially known, "shit on a shingle." :puke:

[matcom]

10. ugh

don't make me remember. the NIGHTMARES!! THE NIGHTMARES!!

x(

make them stop daddy, PLEASE make them stop

[XNASA]

11. See my post #8.

I'll be making some for dinner this week. Not sure when.

I kind of dress it up a little more than the Navy version (dash of allspice, better bread for toast, etc.).

It's not bad in a pinch and like I said, the boys love it.

[oneighty]

13. Creamed Chipped Beef on toast; AKA

Creamed foreskins.

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[fknobbit]

14. Loved SOS

But I can not make it taste the same at home. Salt peter is the missing ingredient.

[Bertha Venation]

25. OMG! Wow....

My mother fed that to us frequently. She was an army brat -- and I never put the two together until this very moment.

[Rex]

7. Pork & rice in BBQ sauce (cold).

It's a wonder I didn't die from fecal impaction!

[disenfranchised]

15. What about the beans?

On the package it says do not eat before flying.

chicken ala king was by far my favorite.

I don't eat beef or pork if I didn't get chicken, I'd trade my entrees for the beans or peanut butter and crackers. I cannot eat or look at baked beans to this day. Come to think of it, I don't eat crackers either.

Has anyone ever had rat packs? It's a box full of canned goods like beefaroni and spaghetti o's and you eat them cold. The only thing I could eat out of there was clam chowder. Try eating cold clam chowder for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

[Twillig]

17. Chicken and Rice

our crew used to fight over that one. Me, my driver, my loader, and (with all due respect) my Lt.! Chicken and Rice came ca. Desert Storm with M&M's too.

Cooking off the back deck of the M1A1... c'mon, No excuse for cold food. No excuse for cold instant coffee, or cocoa, or wet anything. 1500 hp of pure turbine goodness.

Cold Steel's For Real! Once we took boards and angled them up to deflect the exhaust to heat up the water on the tanks of these field showers we had for a couple of days. w00t!

I know you've said you were a tanker too. :toast: :beer:

The Beef Patty was shit. :puke:

[matcom]

18. yes i was M1A1

Germany

how much diesel fuel do you think went into our lungs either from cooking our dinner in the fumes or staying warm sucking them in directly? :)

ah, now THOSE were the days

*fight you for sleeping on the back deck tonight*

:D

[DS1]

19. oh yeah?

Our 900 ci turbo-diesels had plenty of water heating capacity, and being amphibious meant we could take hot showers ~inside~ the engine compartment and run the bilge pumps afterwards to clean the hull out :evilgrin:

[Twillig]

20. No Idea what you are talking about.

Must be the diesel fumes I've inhaled or you're talking about Gy-rene shit!


I love the smell of diesel in the morning!

[matcom]

21. pansy-ass!

you might as well have been staying at the RITZ! :D

[DS1]

22. You mean I wasn't?

That would explain the MREs I suppose :shrug:

[Nlighten1]

28. Ahhh yes...

I can remember many a time standing about 300 ft behind one of these tanks to get warm. I was 11B in Germany.

I just loved Hoenfells.

[matcom]

30. ACK!! Hoenfells had superior MUD

Graff had superior DIRT (dust) x(

nightmares........they are comeing bbbbaaaacccckkkkkkkkkkkk again!

x(

[Nlighten1]

34. Those were good times though...

some of my most favorite Army memories were out there in those places. Where were you stationed? I was in Baumholder.

[Bertha Venation]

26. funny . . . don't freepers say that we Democrats are all cowardly

draft dodgers? You "vets" sure spin some realistic tales of life in the military. ;)

[NightTrain]

31. How many of those motherfuckers ever got roused out of a sound...

...sleep at 3:00 a.m. to clean the compartment (Navy term for "barracks") for an early-morning inspection?

Hey, freepers: YOU'RE A BUNCH OF PHONY, LYING, PANSY-ASS HYPOCRITES!

[Nlighten1]

27. Ham and Chicken loaf...

it was affectionately nick-named "dolphin pussy" by someone in our unit.


My favorites were the peanut butter and cheese spread...or as I called them "butt plug". Being in the field for weeks without a shower makes you not want to poop very often so I tried to stay as constipated as I could.

[Earth_First]

29. I specifically requested all vegetarian mre's

there is no way in hell that I would have eaten the not quite meat in those things...

[Baclava]

32. No brainer for me....

The Hamburger patty with cheeze spread on top between two pieces of vegetable bread washed down with a strawberry shake.

It makes you feel like you're really cooking.

[Earth_First]

35. Coco Powder + H20 + Peanut Butter

on granola bar...

i feel terrible, this definately dates my youthfulness and recent military servitude, as mre's have significantly improved in quality by leaps and bounds in the last decade...

[Liberal Classic]

33. Field expedient pizza

Rehydrate pork or beef patty
Rehydrate ketchup
Spread cheese on cracker
Apply ketchup and meat
Bon appetit

For desert,
Add water, cracker, coffee creamer and sugar to the fruit mix