dualsportdaddy
US Veteran
I bet There's a few out there that has had a holiday meal with one of these.
K-Rations, C-Rations, Mre's for New years Meal?
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Texas Star
US Veteran
Thank God, no. Closest I got was a USAF flight lunch.
My son has had to eat that stuff, with people around who'd have liked to shoot him. Has a Combat Infantryman Badge to go with his Purple Heart and two Oak Leaf clusters.
My son has had to eat that stuff, with people around who'd have liked to shoot him. Has a Combat Infantryman Badge to go with his Purple Heart and two Oak Leaf clusters.
Mike G 0351
US Veteran
I was a "C' Ration eating Grunt 0351
C-rats weren't bad except for the ham and lungers. Couldn't give those things away.
And Texas Star, God bless your son and keep him safe.
And Texas Star, God bless your son and keep him safe.
MCorps0311
US Veteran
I was eating 1944/45 World War II C-rats in 68/69 in Vietnam.0311 Grunt! SF
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dualsportdaddy
US Veteran
I remember the smokes would snap like a pretzel. pound cake pretty good!
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dualsportdaddy
US Veteran
Thank you and your son for serving.
crsides
US Veteran, SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
The wife and I ate the turkey loaf on sliced bread, heated on a kerosene space heater, 1969 Vicenza Italy. That and the candy bars was all we could stomach.
Charlie
Charlie
Ate my share of MRE's & occasional C's, but thankfully command always managed a hot meal for holidays.
Speaking of MRE's... weren't really that bad, especially if you were hungry. If you had multiple consecutive days of MRE meals your intestines just chugged to a near stop though.
Speaking of MRE's... weren't really that bad, especially if you were hungry. If you had multiple consecutive days of MRE meals your intestines just chugged to a near stop though.
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dualsportdaddy
US Veteran
If I remember , didn't we use to call them green eggs? Nobody would trade anything for them. You had to be hungry to em.
Texas Star
US Veteran
My son says the digestion issue was better if you chewed the included gum. Still no delight, though.
cybermgk
US Veteran
I have had both C Ration and MRE holiday meals, also Meal, Combat, Individual ration, as well as Basic Training provided Christmas meal, Had a few Flight lunches too.
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Bajadoc
US Veteran
I have eaten a ton of C's. The ham and eggs were the best. I am thankful for the opportunity. Thank you USA for allowing me to serve. It was a privilege. And I got payed!
vonn
US Veteran
Not the worst thing the Army gave me to eat but then I was always hungry back then!
BearBio
Member
The spaghetti wasn't bad if you could heat it up (in a pot of boiling water!)
KKECK5
Member
BACK around 1993 when my wife was a lunch lady.. (yes she had the hair net) The US GOVT gave schools thoughout the US. free MRE's . They were suppose to be free to give out to students for lunch.. (Before handing them out matches, etc were removed....Hearing this i asked to bring one home to try out.....A couple of days later lo and behold she delivered to me this beautiful bundle of joy....First thing i noticed was that the package was dated 1965, so they were from Vietnam, not your current MRE's. She told me she had to remove the cigarettes that were inside and the TP cause the kids were wetting it and throwing it around the cafeteria. Anyway inside i found a nice hamsteak. Which i refused her offer to heat it up, but insisted on eating cold...I didn't want to lose any of the flavor......Surprisely it didn't taste that bad.....BUT......it felt like i was chewing a cardboard box....it came with a pack of 'charms' which are like 'lifesavers' but square. Hadn't seen them for years...It also had a package of mixed fruit but they look like they died a few years before...
Bajadoc
US Veteran
The pound cake, oh the pond cake.
straightshooter1
US Veteran
Bajadoc, you must be having flashbacks.
I never recall Cs for a holiday like Christmas, New Years or Thanksgiving.
Not sure about Easter and I don't recall anyone paying any attention to the rest of the holidays.
I was there in '65, and '66. Part of '67 and most all of '68. 30 months total.
Never, ever, saw any WW2 C Rations (I thought they had K Rations back then?).
We did have some Cs from the 50s, but not nearly as early as the Korean War.
And, I guess I should be ashamed to admit, I liked them (except for the ham and eggs) which, as far as I recall, no one cared for.
Lots of guys hated the ham and lima beans, which were known by a slightly different and very off color name, but I did.
I even bought a case of C Rats in 1999 getting ready for whatever was supposed to happen and didn't when the 2000s rolled around.
I ate them over a week or so (my wife refused to try them, something about the smell) and they were just as good as I remembered them. No little pack of cigs, though, but since I didn't smoke, that was not a big deal.
Bob
I never recall Cs for a holiday like Christmas, New Years or Thanksgiving.
Not sure about Easter and I don't recall anyone paying any attention to the rest of the holidays.
I was there in '65, and '66. Part of '67 and most all of '68. 30 months total.
Never, ever, saw any WW2 C Rations (I thought they had K Rations back then?).
We did have some Cs from the 50s, but not nearly as early as the Korean War.
And, I guess I should be ashamed to admit, I liked them (except for the ham and eggs) which, as far as I recall, no one cared for.
Lots of guys hated the ham and lima beans, which were known by a slightly different and very off color name, but I did.
I even bought a case of C Rats in 1999 getting ready for whatever was supposed to happen and didn't when the 2000s rolled around.
I ate them over a week or so (my wife refused to try them, something about the smell) and they were just as good as I remembered them. No little pack of cigs, though, but since I didn't smoke, that was not a big deal.
Bob
I ate Cs and they were better than some of the "food" on the
FBs. They didn't have MREs in RVN, they had LURPS. Lucky
for the US Army. If we had to eat MREs we might have switched
sides. I did see a few disturbances over pound cake & peaches.
I do remember being fed at a Air Force base in Danang. It was
like eating in a restaurant, they even had choices. No one ate
those candy bars, we kept them and threw them to kids when
we went through vills. C-rat cigarettes burnt like a fuse.
FBs. They didn't have MREs in RVN, they had LURPS. Lucky
for the US Army. If we had to eat MREs we might have switched
sides. I did see a few disturbances over pound cake & peaches.
I do remember being fed at a Air Force base in Danang. It was
like eating in a restaurant, they even had choices. No one ate
those candy bars, we kept them and threw them to kids when
we went through vills. C-rat cigarettes burnt like a fuse.
