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03-28-2006, 08:37 AM
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MREs
Did they have them late in VN.
I can remember carrying around some dark green pouch that said LRRP Rations. on it. Freezed dried stuff that was pretty good. I liked the Chillie-con-carni. I carried an open pouch in my shirt pocket, ate it like a trail mix (now-days) That stuff kept me going many a day. I still get the shakes when I get hungry. came from carrying that damm radio and being hungry and couldn't stop. Ron 
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03-28-2006, 09:05 AM
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MRE might be meals ready to eat, but they sure ain't fit to eat. Give me the ole C-Rats, Beans and Weeines, B-2 Units stored up on the cookies in them. Also the crackers and cheese.
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03-28-2006, 04:10 PM
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I just remember the LRRP rations looked like someone had already eaten them and threw up in the bag. But if you put some water in them in the morning, tied them up with a rubber band and stuffed them in your pants leg pocket, they would be about ready to eat at lunch time.
The CIDG rations were really filling, had a lot of rice in them, but you wanted to pick all the little unidentifiable things out. Mixing a LRRP ration and a CIDG ration made enough for a whole day but I also preferred C's, sometimes even to messhall food. RW
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03-29-2006, 04:20 AM
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Ron,
No MRE's in Vietnam. The LRRP Ration was as close as it got. The MRE was a later invention although not long after VN. I think they started developing them in the early 70's but not sure when the C's were offically DX'd for the MRE. I had my first MRE in the late 80's, around 87-88 but think they were offical a few years before that. I still want to know what's in Tropical Chocolet to get it not to melt. No, never mind, I may not want to know. Pack
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03-29-2006, 05:39 AM
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FROM THE VERTIBLE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF USELESS AND TRIVIAL INFORMATION: Tropical chocolate was constructed (a very correct verb form, I might add!) by adding slight amounts of cocoa powder to cement and a tad of confectioner's sugar. Ignore what Bobk has to say, he's just a SP! Those little hocky pucks were formed by Albert placing a small wad of that mixture in his armpit, and slamming his arm down against his body. The resultant sound is what set off Bobk, but the final product ended up in C-rats.
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