From: Horrocks, Aaron (ACHb@pge.com)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 08:15:15 PDT
Ronzo,
Where did that come from? I own numerous T-rations, from the earliest
types to literally cases of the modern ones. I can tell you that they do
NOT include the "eating ware" that was just mentioned.
Aaron Horrocks
Airsoft Reenactor's Group, Mopar Alley, MVCC, NRA, & Saint Jame's
Grenadier Member
1952 M38A1 + 1952 M100 Trailer!
1970 Plymouth
1986 G.P. Medium
-----Original Message-----
From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
Behalf Of Ron
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 9:57 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] MREs
Called T-Rations or Tray Packs....
"T-Rations consist of semi-perishable foods that include a variety of
fully cooked tray pack entrees, vegetables, desserts and starches. The
tray pack container serves as a packing, heating and serving container.
There are 10 breakfast and 10 lunch/dinner menus. The T-Ration Module
contains everything needed to support the soldier, including the single
service eating ware.
Milk and bread are required to make the meal nutritionally adequate. The
T-Ration may be further enhanced with dry cereal, fresh fruits, salad
material and some condiments. The highly acceptable lunch/dinner menus
include such entrees as chicken breast with gravy, hamburgers and turkey
slices with gravy. Breakfast entrees include a variety of egg omelets,
ham, pork sausage links and creamed ground beef. Research continues to
produce improved breakfast components for the Breakfast T-Ration menus
such as sausage patty with biscuit and chipped beef. The T-Ration Module
is now being unitized 18 meals per module rather than 36 meals to the
module.
Additionally, the modules still are unitized 12 modules to a pallet, but
because the module is 18 meals versus 36 there are now only 216 meals
per pallet. This initiative is expected to reduce waste, prevent
repetition in menus and make handling the module easier. More than 20
million T-Ration meals were shipped to support Operation Desert
Shield/Storm, which made up about 11 percent of all rations shipped to
the theater. About 98,000 T-Rations were served daily, which made up
approximately 7 percent of the daily rations consumed. The beauty of the
T-Ration continues to be simplicity, compact packaging and the minimum
requirement for personnel and equipment to prepare the ration."
Ronzo
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.Wiehe" <j.wiehe@sympatico.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: 12 September, 2005 11:50
Subject: Re: [MV] MREs
> Has anyone ever come across the squad size MRE's ?
>
> They have to be heated in water and are about as big as the
commercially
> lasagna, cabbage rolls, meat loafs that I think Stoeffer's ( sp ? )
makes
> ?
>
> Picked up some in Findlay in May and the 10 year old chocolate crumb
cake
> and lasagna were still tasty.
>
> Here in Canada the MRE's are called IMP's.
> Indiviual Meals Prepared aka Intense Messy Poop.
>
> Jim Wiehe
> j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
>
>> Nigel Hay MILWEB wrote:
>>
>> >I am told the army call them "Meals, Rarely Edible"?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Meals Rejected by Everyone
>> Mulch Regurgitated by Ethiopians
>> Many Rear-ends are Excruciating
>> Many Require Ex-lax
>>
>> Just a sample of the ones I have heard. I like MREs myself, course I
>> never get plugged up or get the sh*ts from eating them either. If it
>> doesn't taste good, add the Tabasco sauce, and it'll be fine. I even
>> buy the old brown wrappered ones at the gun shows if the price is $2
or
>> lower (that's 15 year old minimum, but I haven't found a bad one yet
-
>> they pack these things pretty well to last a long time!).
>>
>> Mike
>
>
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