Jon
At 10:45 PM 8/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Being an artillery type, we simply stuck the foil pouch in the heater hose on
>the passenger's side of the HMMWV and left it there for about 20-30 minutes.
>Suppose unused powder increments would make a good heater, but never tried
that
>one.
>
>Jim Rice
>USMA '85
>'42 IHC M-3L-4 1.5T Truck
>'43 Ford GPW
>'46 Willys CJ-2A
>'46 Piper J-3
>'51 Jaques Power Saw M100 Trailer
>'67 Ford M151A1
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>Antony Castagno wrote:
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>> Hi List,
>>
>> Brian Meads interesting post about cooking on Military Vehicles made me
>> think and recollect about my time in the service and some of the ways we
>> used our vehicles to cook. Now before you get ideas of how I used to cook
>> on my GPW or such, I'm probably one of the "younger" side of people in our
>> hobby. I'm 32 and graduated from West Point in 1989. I was a Tank Platoon
>> Leader with the 24th Infantry Div (Mech) when the Gulf War Broke out. I
>> deployed with my platoon on 7Aug 1990 5 days after the Iraq's invasion of
>> Kuwait. We supported operation desert shield and Spearheaded the 18th
>> Airborne's attack from the deep west that enveloped and eliminated the
>> republican guard. Living on a tank for 9 months straight was a very
intense
>> experience, and deploying on a tank in 126+ degree weather was quite, well
>> lets say warm :) Initially, because of the heat you could just bury your
>> MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) packets in the sand and they would be cooked in
>> about 5 minutes or less but at night and during the colder winter
nights, we
>> relied on our vehicles for our culinary experimentation. The M1A1 tank is
>> unique in the fact that it uses a turbine engine, actually if I remember
>> correctly its the same engine as one of the Coast Guard Helicopters, It
>> generates 1500 hp and emits an exhaust of over 1200 degrees. During the
>> morning startups where all the tanks start their engines in sync to avoid
>> giving away tank strengths to listeners (always questioned this given how
>> many better ways there are of detection) It made an excellet opportunity to
>> put your canteen cup on the back grill and boil water, only took a
minute or
>> so... great for shaving, coffee, or heating foil packets of food. You
could
>> also simply put stick the MRE packets in the vertical grill but had to be
>> careful of them exploding from the intense heat and quick expansion....
when
>> we moved to TRATS (Tray Rations) Cans of food big enough to feed an entire
>> tank platoon, we would cook those in the engine compartment. The high
>> engine temps, the thick armor and a very conveniently located step plate
>> made a great dutch oven..... One of the more interesting things I saw
from
>> our brethern in Supply, was they used to put their MRE Packs down the stack
>> of their HEMMETS for 5 -10 mins and then gun the engine blowing the hot
>> meals into the air.... It seemed to be a source of pride if they could
>> catch them on the way down... it really didn't matter since they were fully
>> wrapped anyway..... Well these are some nostalgic recollections from a
not
>> so old tanker...... Incidentally I still maintain my armor roots with my
>> Ferret Mk 2/3... Nice not to have to do track maintenance every day.......
>>
>> Keep em rolling,
>> Tony Castagno
>> MVPA
>> 51 M38
>> 52 M38
>> 55 M38A1
>> 63 Ferret Mk 2/3
>> 64 M416
>> 67 M35A2
>> 68 M151A1
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