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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:20 PM Original message |
I ate a MRE tonight. |
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Politicub (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Enjoyed reading your post |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. Any changes in libido or strange urges to kill? |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Yes |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:43 AM Response to Reply #5 |
25. Be thankful... |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:55 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Oh, I'm thankiful of that |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. as far as libido if anything |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:26 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. That is (in part) what i was referring to. |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. I've had plenty of that exact MRE in the field |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. MRE recipes. |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:42 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Ask Veterans |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:54 AM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Or Google. |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:57 AM Response to Reply #27 |
30. If things got to a point where you have ask a veteran for the best way to |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. wait till you get a case |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. Sounds a lot better than C rations |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. got some squares though, to bad the MRE's didnt have em. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
18. From what I've heard, anything would be better |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
24. All I remember about C-rats is ... |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:56 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Pork steak... |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 01:09 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. I was lucky ... a REMF. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 01:37 AM Response to Reply #33 |
38. What I remember most about C rations is the cigarettes. |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 10:37 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Ah the p-38! I rarely found one in mine |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:51 AM Response to Reply #38 |
46. The toilet paper was real useful... |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:36 AM Response to Reply #38 |
55. Never saw menthol cigarettes in the rations I got |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:24 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. My expeience is from 1969. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. Guess So |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #24 |
41. I saw peaches sold for $2 a can. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:45 AM Response to Reply #6 |
26. The butter beans could make you shit through the eye of a needle |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:14 AM Response to Reply #26 |
42. You were able to shit after eating C-Rations? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. They never set well with me. Our base was at the end of the supply |
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hogwyld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 01:35 AM Response to Reply #6 |
37. I remember as a starving student |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:16 AM Response to Reply #6 |
43. Yes when MREs were called LRRP Rations and very desirable |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
44. Ham and eggs was the worst |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:51 PM Response to Reply #44 |
48. Not as disgusting as "Boned Chicken". |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. When I was in college |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. I have two cases sitting in my emergency pile. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
12. yum, that takes me back |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
15. The expiration may affect the integrity of the heater. It always made my meals piping hot. |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. i had one a few years back |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
17. they're great for camping trips - lightweight - and compared to - nothing - they taste pretty good! |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
19. what a coincidence! i just drank some cocoa--and reheated |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
20. You had a kit with peanut butter AND coco and you DIDN'T make 'ranger pudding'?! |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 01:04 AM Response to Reply #20 |
32. never heard of that |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
21. Interesting post. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
22. Peanut butter, ah the memories... insert in boot and walk |
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ManiacJoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
23. How many calories did all that come to? |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:59 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. No idea |
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Recovered Repug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 01:16 AM Response to Reply #23 |
34. About 1200 per meal. |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
35. LOL. |
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nonconformist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
36. We used to have a bunch of those little Tabasco bottles when my husband was in the Army |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
40. Sounds better than C-Rations. But, what doesn't? |
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LiberalHeart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
45. If you want to get emergency rations, about $300 will get you a month's worth.... |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
49. oh dear, all of that would likely leave me constipated. |
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Prefer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
50. When I was in College, |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
51. I've eaten plenty of them... so? |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 01:02 AM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Well, it was my first |
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Feron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
53. MREs aren't too bad, however |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 02:08 AM Response to Original message |
54. The meatloaf in onion gravy one is pretty good |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
56. Only negative is you might not crap for a week. |
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