Running around the field, being awake for 20 hours a day, only being warm because your body is burning calories will give you moments of such intense hunger you will eat anything that has salt in it. Even then, I’ve still turned down the fucking veggie omelet.
I tried to eat it and ended up chucking. My buddy was taking them off us for free because he was vegetarian and I watched him pass out during the seven mile ruck lol.
Pick up a little rank, and you're grabbing chow last, it's all the shit ones unless one of your juniors has your back. I did enjoy the hash browns and fruit, I'd just toss the omelette unless we had gallons of hot sauce.
My uncle was in the military, and on our summer vacations we would often go visit my grandma and stay on base nearby. Better accommodations than a hotel for less money. He’d hit up the equipment and bring us MREs. I was surprised at how good some of them were. There was even a little bag of M&Ms.
Yeah I was in ROTC and we had MREs on field trips and they were alright. I think I made.it through most of the menu items during that time and there were only a few misses
For sure the best, and second is not even remotely close. It's the only one you would recognize if you squeeze it into a bowl and were asked what it is.
My brother told me he got it once. He looked at his superior officer. The dude was like “I’ll get you a new one. I don’t want you in the toilet all day.” He came back with the creamy fettuccine one, to my understanding that one is also bad, but more edible.
I would eat anything. Not picky, but I could only eat a couple bites. I don't remember what else came with it, but I never finished the omlette pouch. Fuck that.
Could be worse.
DoD approved 87 million contract on trying to push lab grown meat on soldiers in a few years.
Imagine fighting and potentially dying, and you get that as a part of your diet.
Enjoy your grown in a lab like a tumor or cell cultured beef, thank you for your service! /s
Honestly we've already learned a lot about lab grown meat since its inception. I'd be willing to bet while it's not gonna compete with like, a prime cut of filet mignon or something, a lab grown steak will probably be engineered well enough to at least beat the cheap stuff. The big issue with early experiments was a lack of understanding of how much texture matters to flavor. If it doesn't *feel* like meat to your teeth and tongue it doesn't matter what it tastes like.
Point is, I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up representing a step *up* in quality from what they're used to.
I honestly can't wait, I've been waiting for guilt free meat for so long that once it starts showing up in my grocery store it will probably become my main meat
Lab grown meat has been in testing for the better part of the last 20 years. It took forever to FDA approval and it has been thoroughly vetted. If someone handed me some lab grown meat I'd totally eat it
Stats are:
- 77% of USA young adult are unfit to serve due to being obese , a drug or alcohol abuser, or have mental illness that prohibits normal function.
- Enlists and reenlistment numbers are down.
- Fitness and other standards are reduced for those that do enlist or reenlist.
Reddit does not reflect what normies think.
Normal people don’t want lab grown meat, and forcing it into the diet, will just hit the enlistment and reenlistment numbers more than they are now.
FDA putting a stamp on it is kinda a joke, as we allow things in food that Europe doesn’t and over sugar things which led to people being fat and unhealthy.
Didn't realize being 6ft 135lb was fat or weird but ok. Still haven't said anything to defend your anti lab grown meat position. Honestly it sounds like you have way more stuff to work on than me so best of luck with that
Hey if it cuts down on the amount cows we have in the world I am all for it. Soldiers might defend US interests but cows are literally killing the world. I say this as person who loves meat. Vat meat is also getting better ever year.
I worked with a company making veggie chicken filet...they prepped a chicken burger for me to try and omg, done right it is tasty... it is just no one has experience of spicing a "meat" that has zero natural flavour
I enjoy a good c ration like the rest of the men.
Sure I'm a wartime photographer.
But if the shit gets too thick, I mean, I'll go to the rifle.
https://preview.redd.it/tedfqygahbbd1.png?width=202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3642294eafd4407e7a802d8268fd7a68ca68808b
I still remember the taste of the “John Wayne bars” chocolate. The rumor was that they put saltpeter in them. Didn’t want the soldiers blowing each other in the field I guess. I do know that the cheese and crackers would clog you up so no worries about digging a latrine. Good times.
It was rumored that sodium nitrate reduces libido. If that was true, bacon would be a lot less popular. Although, the EpicMealTime guy doesn't have any kids, so maybe there's something to it
My buddy told me that when he was in basic training they put sodium nitrate in the food. He said he wasn't able to get an erection from the time he went in until two weeks after he left.
Yeah, I ate those C-Rations many times on deployments. Ham and Lima beans were a vile mush-mush in an army-green can. I remember nobody willing to eat them, but the spaghetti and meatballs were pretty popular. Peanut butter and crackers were good too. Also included in the box were gum and cigarettes, the cigarettes good for trades for us non-smokers.
Early '80s for me, so we usually had them on field exercises. Your memory aligns with mine. I also seem to recall the beanie weenies weren't terrible. Still would trade for the spaghetti though, if I could work that out.
Still was the sucker who drew the ham & lima beans on occasion. Went hungry those times.
Found this gem in a 1968 "look" magazine featuring the cars of 1969. Who thought this ad would make you want to join the army.
https://preview.redd.it/k3zij5ts1cbd1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7e0f0ed399b6db582a08685e31cfa2559342337
You write "Bring me back alive" and you're carrying a camera in the middle of a war. What is that, some kind of sick joke? Whose side are you on, son? Don't you love your country? Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
A million Vietnamese and >50K Americans. Now we sell this made in Vietnam in the US. China makes all our shit. Communism was going to take over the world.
My dad would bring home c-ration peanut butter and jelly as a treat back in the early '80s. From my memory, the jelly wasn't too different from a Welch's, but the peanut butter was...different. I wish I could get my hands on a fresh can, just to remind myself of the taste.
Dad only ever told me 2 things about when he was in Vietnam. He once burned a hole into the side of his finger from an electrical arc, and he had multiple rations of Spam that had maggots in it. I don't know if it was older rations or not, he was with VMCJ-1 at Da Nang from Fall 66-Summer 70.
For the rest of his life he refused to eat Spam and got even more of a chuckle out of Monty Python's Spam sketch.
I've done some research, and sources including The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition state that HFCS did not enter the food and beverage market until the 1970's.
HFCS was not a common ingredient in food until the 80s, there's no reason to think it was used in the ham, and no reason to think the photo is mislabeled. Another commenter found the photo in Getty images and placed it to 1968-- hey, research produces fact-based results, amazing huh. I can't imagine why the hell you guys are so fascinated with the idea that it's got HFCS in it, like there's some amazing point to make if it did.
Yeah I doubt it's in there, I was just pointing out that HFCS was introduced in the early 70s (I couldn't find an exact date when I tried to look it up) and that the vietnam war ended 1975. I also never trust the dates on this sub, because they're usually inaccurate and just made up to fill the sub requirement.
So it seems unlikely, but it's not impossible that the ham would have HFCS in it. There was no larger point or "gotcha" beyond that.
The original caption according to Getty Images doesn't say that he is a journalist:
>Here, a U.S. Marine corps member just has one significant slogan pasted on his helmet. This marine was in a battle, fighting North Vietnamese Regulars about 20 miles south of Da Nang. January 10, 1968
But the camera does indicate that he is probably a military photographer or civilian photojournalist.
I can’t imagine that the caption could be wrong. Then again, there are a few official military photos of me online that are miscaptioned so it can happen.
>no insignia on his uniform
Where would the insignia be? I can't find any photos where an insignia is visible. For example this one from the U.S. National Archives of 17 year old Marine Richard Coggins taken at DaNang during the initial Marine landings there March 8, 1965:
https://preview.redd.it/310z9zyvnbbd1.jpeg?width=4462&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=906ab4503e2d7422c8bd420e35f6ac21bc1777d4
But that doesn't always seem to be the case. Here is another photo:
https://preview.redd.it/v0leyy6x3dbd1.jpeg?width=1430&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8a594f772b9bdb2e39ea33f2b766995156b0ab5
Caption at Getty Images for that photo:
>A soldier of the United States 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division with a Vietnamese soldier and a local man during a probe into Vietcong territory outside the defense perimeter near Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, circa April 1965.
The best C ration was 'beef steak dinner'. I was in line as the last of a crate was emptied and a new crate of meals was opened. We were to take any two that were handed to us, but I stepped forward and plucked the two beef steaks before the Sgt spoke and moved on out immediately to keep the line moving. Lucky!
Reminds me of one of my favorite passages from “Dispatches”:
“Boy, you sure get offered some shitty choices,” a Marine once said to me, and I couldn’t help but feel that what he really meant was that you didn’t get offered any at all. Specifically, he was just talking about a couple of C-ration cans, “dinner,” but considering his young life you couldn’t blame him for thinking that if he knew one thing for sure, it was that there was no one anywhere who cared less about what he wanted. There wasn’t anybody he wanted to thank for his food, but he was grateful that he was still alive to eat it, that the motherfucker hadn’t scarfed him up first. He hadn’t been anything but tired and scared for six months and he’d lost a lot, mostly people, and seen far too much, but he was breathing in and breathing out, some kind of choice all by itself.
As kids in the late 70s we’d buy olive green cans of C-rations from the Army surplus stores and dare each other to try them. The spaghetti wasn’t that bad.
Just before getting to my first duty station. The Supply Chief got a "great" deal on pallets of 1st Generation MRE's. No heater pack. Sometimes you would get lucky with M&M's in the bag.
fun fact, the VC used to collect left over MRE from US soldiers and use them as treats, throwaway can ham is still 100 times better than tree roots. This is why it's impossible for the US to win
"Enjoying"
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Didn’t they refer to it as the vomelette?
I see you have never tried the 4 fingers of death
Only good thing about that one is how fast you can eat them due to the Vienna sausage like texture that does not require chewing.
Only a masochist would want to chew them....
It didn't even come with a cheese packet, shit like that should have had a consolation prize.
I just assumed four fingers of death was a nip of Nikolai level (but American) bottom ~~shelf paint remover~~ alcohol.
I had to google this. It looks like a wet scab wtf.. This gets *fed* to humans??
Running around the field, being awake for 20 hours a day, only being warm because your body is burning calories will give you moments of such intense hunger you will eat anything that has salt in it. Even then, I’ve still turned down the fucking veggie omelet.
I tried to eat it and ended up chucking. My buddy was taking them off us for free because he was vegetarian and I watched him pass out during the seven mile ruck lol.
The most popular masochist I bet.
ah, yes, makes sense, considering humans are omnivores.
Pick up a little rank, and you're grabbing chow last, it's all the shit ones unless one of your juniors has your back. I did enjoy the hash browns and fruit, I'd just toss the omelette unless we had gallons of hot sauce.
Most MREs are fine some are even good but there are a couple of options that leave wondering what the fuck they were thinking
Chili Mac is top tier MRE, especially if you luck out and get one of those little bottles of Tabasco.
Note to self: Include Tabasco sauce in next Anysoldier.com care package. I'm thinking the little single serving packets instead of bottles, though.
I used to carry a bottle of Tabasco in a holder on my belt next to my multitool.
Cut the inner straps out of a mag pouch and put a roll of TP with a Tabasco bottle inside the tube in there(wrapped in a ziplock bag of course).
A buddy of mine who was a lieutenant used to carry around a little metal vial that contained "Old Bay" seasoning!!! Guys would ask him for "a shake".
Based LT helping out his Joes. I'm sure he was loved.
Cheese tortellini fucking slaps
My uncle was in the military, and on our summer vacations we would often go visit my grandma and stay on base nearby. Better accommodations than a hotel for less money. He’d hit up the equipment and bring us MREs. I was surprised at how good some of them were. There was even a little bag of M&Ms.
Yeah I was in ROTC and we had MREs on field trips and they were alright. I think I made.it through most of the menu items during that time and there were only a few misses
Sometimes humans make mistakes, those MRE guys are no exceptions.
The chili and macaroni was probably my favorite. I could eat it cold np any day.
For sure the best, and second is not even remotely close. It's the only one you would recognize if you squeeze it into a bowl and were asked what it is.
All that defense money isn't for the soldiers
Me too. It was much worse than I expected.
All that defense money isn't for the soldiers
My brother told me he got it once. He looked at his superior officer. The dude was like “I’ll get you a new one. I don’t want you in the toilet all day.” He came back with the creamy fettuccine one, to my understanding that one is also bad, but more edible.
MRE. Three lies in one acronym.
People fought over those because they came with m&ms
“ rock or something ”
Or the “breakfast omelette”
I would eat anything. Not picky, but I could only eat a couple bites. I don't remember what else came with it, but I never finished the omlette pouch. Fuck that.
"The Vomlet"
I would rather be on burn barrel duty than eat that stuff.
If it is as good as spam, I’m all in. (I prefer fried though)
“Hunger is the best spice.”
"work is the warmest jacket"
“Death is the best nights sleep”
“Rigor mortis is the stiffest erection.”
Burma Shave
Put that on my headstone!
salty meat... whats not to like? if he has crackers and some mustard or hot sauce, hes having a good time
I see none of those things in this picture. If we had any bacon we could have bacon and eggs if we had any eggs.
That's what the title says yup
"Ham"
r/yourjokebutworse
Savoring
Yup! I had a similar experience after eating a cold can of Spam. Whoops. It tasted slimy and unpleasant.
"Ham"
"Ham"
Could be worse. DoD approved 87 million contract on trying to push lab grown meat on soldiers in a few years. Imagine fighting and potentially dying, and you get that as a part of your diet. Enjoy your grown in a lab like a tumor or cell cultured beef, thank you for your service! /s
Ignorance at its finest. Congrats dude.
Maybe it will be lab grown lobster. Can’t complain about that.
Honestly we've already learned a lot about lab grown meat since its inception. I'd be willing to bet while it's not gonna compete with like, a prime cut of filet mignon or something, a lab grown steak will probably be engineered well enough to at least beat the cheap stuff. The big issue with early experiments was a lack of understanding of how much texture matters to flavor. If it doesn't *feel* like meat to your teeth and tongue it doesn't matter what it tastes like. Point is, I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up representing a step *up* in quality from what they're used to.
I honestly can't wait, I've been waiting for guilt free meat for so long that once it starts showing up in my grocery store it will probably become my main meat
Lab grown meat has been in testing for the better part of the last 20 years. It took forever to FDA approval and it has been thoroughly vetted. If someone handed me some lab grown meat I'd totally eat it
Stats are: - 77% of USA young adult are unfit to serve due to being obese , a drug or alcohol abuser, or have mental illness that prohibits normal function. - Enlists and reenlistment numbers are down. - Fitness and other standards are reduced for those that do enlist or reenlist. Reddit does not reflect what normies think. Normal people don’t want lab grown meat, and forcing it into the diet, will just hit the enlistment and reenlistment numbers more than they are now. FDA putting a stamp on it is kinda a joke, as we allow things in food that Europe doesn’t and over sugar things which led to people being fat and unhealthy.
None of that has anything to do with lab grown meat and you have no proof that "normal people don't want lab grown meat"
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Well if your gym bros agree then clearly that's the consensus of the entire population of every demographic
Yup, case closed only reddit "fatties" like lab grown meat, pack up guys
Didn't realize being 6ft 135lb was fat or weird but ok. Still haven't said anything to defend your anti lab grown meat position. Honestly it sounds like you have way more stuff to work on than me so best of luck with that
Hey if it cuts down on the amount cows we have in the world I am all for it. Soldiers might defend US interests but cows are literally killing the world. I say this as person who loves meat. Vat meat is also getting better ever year.
I worked with a company making veggie chicken filet...they prepped a chicken burger for me to try and omg, done right it is tasty... it is just no one has experience of spicing a "meat" that has zero natural flavour
Who else remembers all of the multi languaged "Bring em Back Alive" stickers?
I’m too young for this. Whats this sticker about?
probably not wanting every young man in the world to be dead over a war they didn’t ask to fight in.
I enjoy a good c ration like the rest of the men. Sure I'm a wartime photographer. But if the shit gets too thick, I mean, I'll go to the rifle. https://preview.redd.it/tedfqygahbbd1.png?width=202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3642294eafd4407e7a802d8268fd7a68ca68808b
Rafterman for the win. Factoid: he's a professional photographer IRL.
Lets get this out on a tray. Nice!
NICE!
He should have gotten it out into a tray
Probably a nice hiss when he opened the can
But it isn't on a tray!!
The days before the retort pouch.
I still remember the taste of the “John Wayne bars” chocolate. The rumor was that they put saltpeter in them. Didn’t want the soldiers blowing each other in the field I guess. I do know that the cheese and crackers would clog you up so no worries about digging a latrine. Good times.
They didn't want the soldiers to do what in the fields?
Any port in a storm.
Here comes the choo choo train, open wide.
Bro job bro job
Well, Marines are part of the Navy.
It was rumored that sodium nitrate reduces libido. If that was true, bacon would be a lot less popular. Although, the EpicMealTime guy doesn't have any kids, so maybe there's something to it
My buddy told me that when he was in basic training they put sodium nitrate in the food. He said he wasn't able to get an erection from the time he went in until two weeks after he left.
It is a common rumor, it is also not true. The all too common lack of wood during basic is mostly due to stress.
Times got desperate
They wanted to prevent dysentery among the ranks.
Hawk Tuah….
Wait…what?
That myth has never gone away; I remember dudes saying in Basic training in ‘13 that they put shit in the food to prevent erections
I still can’t a decent election and it’s already 2024.
My favorites were the B3 units had that big old coconut chocolate Patty and crackers. And then later MREs had those tiny bottles of hot sauce.
Yeah, I ate those C-Rations many times on deployments. Ham and Lima beans were a vile mush-mush in an army-green can. I remember nobody willing to eat them, but the spaghetti and meatballs were pretty popular. Peanut butter and crackers were good too. Also included in the box were gum and cigarettes, the cigarettes good for trades for us non-smokers.
Early '80s for me, so we usually had them on field exercises. Your memory aligns with mine. I also seem to recall the beanie weenies weren't terrible. Still would trade for the spaghetti though, if I could work that out. Still was the sucker who drew the ham & lima beans on occasion. Went hungry those times.
Found this gem in a 1968 "look" magazine featuring the cars of 1969. Who thought this ad would make you want to join the army. https://preview.redd.it/k3zij5ts1cbd1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7e0f0ed399b6db582a08685e31cfa2559342337
Sacrifice your life or you're not a man!
lay down your life You've come this far Sacrifice, trade your life For a silver star
Is that the ham and lima beans ration (aka *ham and motherfuckers*) that was detested to universally a great degree?!
You write "Bring me back alive" and you're carrying a camera in the middle of a war. What is that, some kind of sick joke? Whose side are you on, son? Don't you love your country? Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
He crossed out “em” and wrote “ME”
"The Jungian thing, sir!"
The duality of man. Whose side are you on son?
Well howdy Pilgrim
Ha, literally the first thing that came to mind.
Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God.
What’s that watch he’s wearing? Hamilton?
Would like to know as well.
Back when spam was spam.
Spam in nam
The spam in Nam falls mainly from Uncle Sam.
Stupid, utterly pointless war
A million Vietnamese and >50K Americans. Now we sell this made in Vietnam in the US. China makes all our shit. Communism was going to take over the world.
That's Joker.
I'm old enough to remember when that AAA bumper sticker was a common sight on cars.
I read "C-section ham" and I puked in my mouth a little bit before calling myself a moron.
We used to call ham and beans, Ham and motherfuckers.
Ah, nutrients. There's just enough in here to keep me alive slightly longer
More like OldSchoolDepressing
That's probably the Best Helmet art I've seen.
My dad would bring home c-ration peanut butter and jelly as a treat back in the early '80s. From my memory, the jelly wasn't too different from a Welch's, but the peanut butter was...different. I wish I could get my hands on a fresh can, just to remind myself of the taste.
The peanut butter was like peanut flavored wallpaper paste.
Dad only ever told me 2 things about when he was in Vietnam. He once burned a hole into the side of his finger from an electrical arc, and he had multiple rations of Spam that had maggots in it. I don't know if it was older rations or not, he was with VMCJ-1 at Da Nang from Fall 66-Summer 70. For the rest of his life he refused to eat Spam and got even more of a chuckle out of Monty Python's Spam sketch.
Gonna bet that canned meat was a delicacy they looked forward too. 90% of their food was 100% dehydrated and that shit sucks
Ya think it had high fructose corn syrup in it for flavor?
I've done some research, and sources including The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition state that HFCS did not enter the food and beverage market until the 1970's.
And the Vietnam war ended 1975, so there was some overlap. It's possible OP mislabeled the year of the photo.
HFCS was not a common ingredient in food until the 80s, there's no reason to think it was used in the ham, and no reason to think the photo is mislabeled. Another commenter found the photo in Getty images and placed it to 1968-- hey, research produces fact-based results, amazing huh. I can't imagine why the hell you guys are so fascinated with the idea that it's got HFCS in it, like there's some amazing point to make if it did.
Yeah I doubt it's in there, I was just pointing out that HFCS was introduced in the early 70s (I couldn't find an exact date when I tried to look it up) and that the vietnam war ended 1975. I also never trust the dates on this sub, because they're usually inaccurate and just made up to fill the sub requirement. So it seems unlikely, but it's not impossible that the ham would have HFCS in it. There was no larger point or "gotcha" beyond that.
I imagine it tastes like a pound of salt and the farts of a guy who just ate a ham.
*Journalist
The original caption according to Getty Images doesn't say that he is a journalist: >Here, a U.S. Marine corps member just has one significant slogan pasted on his helmet. This marine was in a battle, fighting North Vietnamese Regulars about 20 miles south of Da Nang. January 10, 1968 But the camera does indicate that he is probably a military photographer or civilian photojournalist.
I can’t imagine that the caption could be wrong. Then again, there are a few official military photos of me online that are miscaptioned so it can happen.
He has a camera and no insignia on his uniform
>no insignia on his uniform Where would the insignia be? I can't find any photos where an insignia is visible. For example this one from the U.S. National Archives of 17 year old Marine Richard Coggins taken at DaNang during the initial Marine landings there March 8, 1965: https://preview.redd.it/310z9zyvnbbd1.jpeg?width=4462&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=906ab4503e2d7422c8bd420e35f6ac21bc1777d4
His name is over his pocket
But that doesn't always seem to be the case. Here is another photo: https://preview.redd.it/v0leyy6x3dbd1.jpeg?width=1430&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8a594f772b9bdb2e39ea33f2b766995156b0ab5 Caption at Getty Images for that photo: >A soldier of the United States 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division with a Vietnamese soldier and a local man during a probe into Vietcong territory outside the defense perimeter near Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, circa April 1965.
I’m likely full of crap on this subject. My bad
C rats really weren’t that bad. Much better than the first generation MREs.
And some Benson & Hedges
The best C ration was 'beef steak dinner'. I was in line as the last of a crate was emptied and a new crate of meals was opened. We were to take any two that were handed to us, but I stepped forward and plucked the two beef steaks before the Sgt spoke and moved on out immediately to keep the line moving. Lucky!
This picture is top level.
I like what he did to the sticker on his helmet . Hope he made it home .
Yea I don’t know if I would stick a white target on my head in the middle of the green jungle. Easier to come back dead.
Ham wasn’t too bad.
Spam
🤮
Everything the body needs.
Andrew Scott, is that you?
Best sauce is appetite....
Ham slice was my least favorite MRE. Did not know it was a tradition.
Baked beans are off!
Enjoying isn’t word I would use…
Reminds me of one of my favorite passages from “Dispatches”: “Boy, you sure get offered some shitty choices,” a Marine once said to me, and I couldn’t help but feel that what he really meant was that you didn’t get offered any at all. Specifically, he was just talking about a couple of C-ration cans, “dinner,” but considering his young life you couldn’t blame him for thinking that if he knew one thing for sure, it was that there was no one anywhere who cared less about what he wanted. There wasn’t anybody he wanted to thank for his food, but he was grateful that he was still alive to eat it, that the motherfucker hadn’t scarfed him up first. He hadn’t been anything but tired and scared for six months and he’d lost a lot, mostly people, and seen far too much, but he was breathing in and breathing out, some kind of choice all by itself.
What kind of watch is he wearing?
My 1st duty station in Germany, they just started phasing out the c for mre. I much prefer C
Let’s get it out on to a tray M’Kay
Better than Spam probably
Enough salt you don't need a salt-tablet.
Any identification on that wristwatch?
Didn’t know Gob Bluth was in Vietnam
I did my service in Asia in the early seventies never had to try k rations
As kids in the late 70s we’d buy olive green cans of C-rations from the Army surplus stores and dare each other to try them. The spaghetti wasn’t that bad.
Just before getting to my first duty station. The Supply Chief got a "great" deal on pallets of 1st Generation MRE's. No heater pack. Sometimes you would get lucky with M&M's in the bag.
Enjoying 🤣
What happened to the watch?
Legend has it he died from eating this
Looks like spam
Anyone else hear these things referred to in movies and assume they were "Sea rations"?
🤮
Is this the patriarchy feminists talk about?
fun fact, the VC used to collect left over MRE from US soldiers and use them as treats, throwaway can ham is still 100 times better than tree roots. This is why it's impossible for the US to win
God bless them for keeping us free at the COST OF THEIR LIVES!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA ALWAYS 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
https://preview.redd.it/f5pezgxl6kbd1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41c8dfcb0648792cefc684fcea306d743d902da3
He's a photographer so the quotation marks belong on "soldier".