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Help me out, I remember some meals. Bacon, rumored to have saltpeter in it.
A Thanksgiving meal, I;ll never forget.

Cold cereal in the box you cut open.
Liver, and onions when i was hungry. I remember the bad meals.

It;s been a while now.

There were so few people on post at holidays we actually ate really good . Thanksgiving 1977 we had real turkey with everything at Fort Knox.

midnight chow was the stuff. ginormous omelet, hashbrowns, SOS, bacon, sausage, etc.

also the holiday meals were great, especially overseas. they tried to make up for us being away from home on christmas, etc i guess. the worst was in tech school. chow hall lines around the corner and the food was generally godawful. i never liked ketchup before then. ended up putting it on everything. the worst was what they called "steak". i have no idea what grade of meat this was but it was blue with huge gristle lines running through it.

S.O.S. for breakfast.

My Dad Told me about the Green Eggs and Green Ham on the Ship to and from Korea.
He also told me that after they ate the ships would go threw storms and there would be Green Eggs and Green Ham flowing from the Bow to Stern as they went up and down in the waves.
He never really liked Eggs much as I grew up and even when I left home. He Tolerated scrambled eggs but very few.

Greens, SOS, no soup I recall, it's been over 58 years.

Had plenty MRE's

C-Rats not so much

MREs for the win !

“Breakfast, army, one each” consisted of 2-3 slices of paper thin bacon, either raw or burnt, your only options, scrambled ‘eggs’ in various shades of yellow, green, or grey, that had been boiled in a bag and broken up so if you were lucky you got the corner part that looked exactly like the corner of the bag and may have been crunchy, untoasted white bread, some form of starch, usually reconstituted hash browns or boxed grits, sometimes oatmeal that could double as pothole filler, and some diluted coffee concentrate that may have been consumable. And hot sauce and pepper. In a strange way, it was comforting in its consistency. I deployed and got to eat in a Navy Galley and concluded I may have joined the wrong service.

Old70

# 22 Mre when it existed
Shrimp Jambalaya.

Starving dog in a bombed out mig 21 bunker when we seized Mosul airfeild would turn its nose to it.
Eat any other main menu item giving to her.
Seen her months later up their at Remf central
Healthy looking friendly americanized dog👍👍👍
Glad to see she made it.
Sure as fugg didnt get that way eating shrimp jambalaya..
LOL!!!


You were soooooooo fugged if you got shrimp jambalaya.
Even the brothers in the platoon wouldn't eat that schit....

Rat fugg mre box full of #22 main menu pouches.
Gave to Haji Kids at the gate.
They would drown the taste out with the tabasco sauce.
Wouldnt want a #22 without Tabasco actually.
All the the menu,s they didnt ask for hot sauce.
Lol!!!


When your hungry you will eat anything to include menu # 22
Unless your are a starving smart dog in a bombed out mig bunker.

LOL!!!

I went in during the transition time between Cs and Gen1 MREs. Issued Cs quite a bit during Basic & AIT (OSUT) and about the first half of my first tour at my first duty station. By the time I got to ROK in '85, I never saw another C-Rat.

I could never complain much about the food either in the mess hall or the field. Of course while in ROK, I ate at some Air Farce dining halls in my travels and Osan AB was just up the road from us. It wasn't so much that AF food was better, it was the AF dining experience that was better.







Hells yeah!

Had C rats 1st 4 or 5 weeks of basic july aug 83.
Then we got the new fangled MRE,s.

Actually more quantity of food in a MRE.
Which I know I appreciated at the time.
Still got my 1st C Rat P-38 and a original Harmony Church dog tag on my truck key ring.

Stupid things that mean something....

When I was in the first Gulf War, our cooks were awesome and worked almost every day. I remember one Sunday afternoon I was walking around the compound on my guard shift and I walked by the cooks area. They were cooking steaks on the grill and dang they smelled delicious. It was their day off and they really earned it. When we returned to FT Hood, TX almost every one of our cooks got promoted.

The bacon you buy may well have saltpeter (potassium nitrate) on it. It's a preservative for meat.

Went through 11b Basic Training in Ft. Benning, GA, Harmony Church in the summer of ‘88. Brutal, hard, and unpleasant, but one of the most awesome memories I have from my teenage years. We used to despise and ridicule the “wimps” that did the 13 week training in the air-conditioned barracks of the adjacent “Sand Hill”; (aka, “Sand Hilton”), lol! I wouldn’t trade those days/experiences for anything

We were eating K rats and C rats......

MREs you guys were eating good.....

Started off with C rats. I didn't care what the meal was a long as it had canned fruit. Hated that dry azz cake. Yes Rene, I still have my P-38 on my key ring as well.

I remember alll the extra trash in the MRE . Created a big mess but used to like the one with beef stew.

B-2 unit in the C’s. Beanie weenies! My fav! Fart like a roan hack horse!!!

Never had bad chow on a Navy or Marine Corps installation . And chow on ship was good too!

Maybe ‘cause I was hungry? I dunno?

J rats peanut butter and crackers

Yep.....
D co 1/38th
Started OSUT with 144
Grad with 99 11b 14 weeks later.
Ronny Reagan sent the ash and the trash home.
Drills flat out told us only 99 were gonna make it thru.
Rest would be TDP,d Training Discharge Program.
All 99 of us COHORT privates filled in C co 1/12th mech at Carson.
2 yrs at Carson 2 yrs Germany
Mech....

Never so glad to get outta mech and go light infantry.

Learned alot on mech.
Learned alot about Mortar systems at hood when all e5 and e6 11b,s
Were given the option in 88 to either go to 2AD and go 11m bradley or go to a 1st Cav Task force as 11b

I raised my hand and said where is the cav patch

13 months dropping 4.2 mortar rds.

In the back of a 113...... SMH.....
Lol!!!

But that mortar knowledge paid dividends for years for me dealing with 60 mm company and battalion 81 mm mortars.