MREs

Mar. 7th, 2010 11:44 am
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Meals Ready to Eat are both anticipated and dreaded – anticipated as you are hungry and dreaded as the composite items are either quite delicious or almost unpalatable crap.






Yum – ham diner with mustard sauce sounds good.
 

 

Bread in a bad does not sound so great – the admonishment to not eat it supports this theory, no?
 

The dreaded omelette with mushroom sauce. It’s quite dreadful.

 

Yum.

 

Just what we need in combat – a little treat from Baskin Robbins.

 

And of course a feed back form that one will be highly unlikely to have the time to fill out while in combat.

 

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Date: 2010-03-07 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jessie-c.livejournal.com
The dreaded omelette with mushroom sauce. It’s quite dreadful.

Oh yes, the boiled lung.

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Date: 2010-03-07 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com
This isn't a MRE. This is an IMP. Get with the program!

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Date: 2010-03-07 07:51 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
Oh, you beat me to it. However, MRE and IMP both translate as 'Rat Pack', don't they?

Personally, I prefer the Yank MREs with their enclosed ration heaters, which fit perfectly into parka pockets. Not so impressed with the 'hot beverage bag' set-up, though.

And quite agree about the dreadfulness of the omelets, which could of course be repurposed as maquettes for first-aid training. :/

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carly-kai.livejournal.com
way back when the omelettes came in a tin - not so much for consumption but for use as a weapon to hurl at the enemy. The last amendment to the Geneva Convention put an end to that nonsense!

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
Note the 06 issue date. I wouldn't be wanting to eat the omelette, not even if I were starving. :/

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Date: 2010-03-07 11:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freefloat.livejournal.com
Oh, they're quite safe for up to (I think) 5 years from packaging date. Usually. (ask if you really want the story)

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Date: 2010-03-08 12:05 am (UTC)
maellenkleth: (81st-ravens)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
Oh, from prior bitter experience over there I do, alas, know more of the story on true versus claimed shelf life. :/

Now that I am very much retired, it's all moot. Enjoy your swiss steak!

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Date: 2010-03-08 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carly-kai.livejournal.com
I'll check the expiry date on the packages - perhaps it will be along the lines of that for Twinky's - never.

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com
It's boiled lung for dinner for you!

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Date: 2010-03-07 07:49 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: (81st-ravens)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
Ah, yes. I wonder whether anyone at D Pers ever reads those notes?

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com
Not in 23 years.

(Of course, this is the first time I've come across IMPs since Cornwallis...)

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:30 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: (keysunrise)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
"Learn to Serve". Includes serving breakfast, apparently. ^_^

Here, can you identify this shoulder flash? Hint: things that go bump in the night.

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carly-kai.livejournal.com
hmm. it has something to do with the bollocks on jessie's wee willy wanker?

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:36 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
Uh, no. But it does involve the Fulda Gap.

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com
Something to do with who has the keys to open the toolbox first thing in the morning...?

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:37 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
Oh, if you open these sorts of toolboxes wrong, it's going to be a very sunny morning, for the rest of your life. ^_^

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
And yes, there's a sunrise, a key and two wrench-ends in that little bit of heraldry.

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com
Ahhh...something in an EOD vein then?

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:47 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
Well, you don't really dispose of these beasties, so much as try to keep their fangs trimmed and ready to go.

On an allied note: nobody seems to have set up an overarching heraldry-search system for these sorts of insignia: enough to say that these flashes belong on mess dress, not battle dress.

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com
...and not likely seen on any air force dress.

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Date: 2010-03-08 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carly-kai.livejournal.com
adornments on combat clothing draw enemy fire...

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Date: 2010-03-08 12:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com
...and all that costume jewellery on these army DEUs are a decided FOD hazard on an air force parade square flightline.

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Date: 2010-03-07 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freefloat.livejournal.com
I think they just might. One year, as a bored no-hook private, I filled out a bunch of them and sent 'em in. I suggested that they might consider a steak (read: burger patty) in with sliced mushrooms and sauce (since I know mushrooms keep well canned)

And whaddaya know, a few years later, I'm in the field and what do you think is on the label of my IMP?? :D It was pretty good, too, for an IMP.

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Date: 2010-03-07 09:49 pm (UTC)
maellenkleth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
Oh, gawd. The swiss steak; I completely forgot that inedible concoction. However, one year they did have salmon in dill sauce. 04, maybe?

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Date: 2010-03-08 12:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carly-kai.livejournal.com
you need glasses - it was quite clearly salmonella with swill sauce.

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