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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:43 pm 
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Regarding the cheeseburger, I fail to see what the fuss is about - it looks delicious!

I'd have to think hard between one of those, spam, or a fray bentos pie

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:06 pm 
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The new MREs are "suppossed" to be better then the originals that we got issued in '84-'85, in the ROK ... they still had not "prefected" them ! :laugh:   The LRRP Rats were best, but had to be re-hydrated.  I think they just had one of those companies that produce food for camping, put'm in OD plastic bags !   They must have had beacoup left over from Vietnam.  But I never will know where they got the idea to include and "cornflake bar" in the pack ! :laugh:   Mmmm ... I'm getting "hungery" !  :D

T-rats were the best, but you had either be hungry or have friends!

I think I still have a chocolate chip cake from an 80's era MRE...  :p

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:25 am 
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T-Rats were pretty good ... but we rarely got'm !!!    See all you guys missed by not being in the Army or USMC !! :laugh:

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:45 am 
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Cheeseburger in a can - a step down from the pizza in a cup for sure.

The MREs look good.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:54 am 
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Pizza in a Cup !  From Steve Martin - "The Jerk" ! :laugh: And I guess I should have said "some of you guys missed ..." :laugh:

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:59 am 
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T-Rats were pretty good ... but we rarely got'm !!!    See all you guys missed by not being in the Army or USMC !! :laugh:

We didn't get them issued either, we always seem to acquire them while reconnoitering enemy supply routes while on OPFOR.  That makes them taste even better!  :p

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:47 am 
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Ah yes !  Aquired Rats !  Even  better !  :D

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:43 pm 
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Hey Legion 4,

Since you were in the ROK then I know you will remember kimchei (think thats how its spelled) one wiff of that makes anything look more appetizing!

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:15 pm 
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Ah yes, I had back to back tours (Jan'84-Nov'85) with a Mech BN, in the Western Corridor and the DMZ. The smell of Kimchi in summer time could knock a buzzard off a s*h*i*t wagon ! :O Never really aquired a taste for it ... thank God !! Being the only "round-eye" on a packed bus on a pass to Seoul, in August could have been a form of torture !   Of course, Asians told me, us round eyes smell like greasy meat !?   After a week or so in the bush, summer or winter, we all smelled like #??&/* !!!   And you are correct Wombat, I'm now working on the color(s) of Tan ! :laugh:

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The main thing that I remember about Korea was it was too damn hot in the summer and too damn cold in the winter....and come to think of it..that sort of sums up every place I found myself during my career as an officer and gentleman (by act of congress... not birth) in the USAF.

First Texas for flight training...then Korea..then Germany...then Saudi Arabia/Iraq and then back to Korea....after flight training was home about three weeks out of six years!

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You got that right ! As an Grunt Officer (my TAC OIC at Benning said, he could make me an officer but never make me a Gentleman ! :laugh: ) it seems we were always too hot, too cold, wet, tried, dirty and since I was in before GPS, on ocassions - lost ! :D :laugh:          And you are correct, DRAKE wanted that title but I didn't want to be portrayed as a Vegas Lounge Singer in the 25th-26th Century and Mercenary Commander ! :D

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The KimChi made on camp by the locals was good, I couldn't stomach the real local stuff though outside the wire.  One of our guys liked the stuff, unfortunately he broke a jar of it inside the Humvee!  It wreaked for weeks!!!

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Kimchi definitely gets my vote as a Weapon of Mass Destruction! :p

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Yeah, Kimchi ain't for round-eyes ... :D

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Having suffered through several different renditions of rations (everything from backpacker freeze-dried to both '80s and modern "Meals Rejected by Ethiopians"), I think my preferred "deployed food" was the sliders served every saturday lunch after field day.  Ah, the joys of naval service... (although pizza for Saturday midrats was usually a good reason to stay awake until mids).

but that burger-in-a-can actually *looked* pretty decent.  Too bad it seems they missed the all-important texture.

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