Comments on: Rations

By: Filling Those MREs

Filling Those MREs — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:02:02 +0000

[...] readers with a high fright threshold might wish to view a set of comparative photos of modern army rations from various militaries. All I can say is, even if you knew nothing about China, you could guess that their soldiers are [...]

By: US MRE/Humanitarian Ration Orders, FY 2007

US MRE/Humanitarian Ration Orders, FY 2007 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:51:31 +0000

[...] rations. DID readers with a high fright threshold might wish to view a set of comparative photos of modern army rations from various militaries; even if you knew nothing about China, you could guess that their soldiers are draftees. Or, you [...]

By: US MRE/Humanitarian Ration Orders

US MRE/Humanitarian Ration Orders — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:50 +0000

By: Defense Industry Daily

Defense Industry Daily — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:49:18 +0000

US MRE/Humanitarian Ration Orders, FY 2007

The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) in Philadelphia, PA issues contracts for American field rations, knows as Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), and for Humanitarian Daily Rations used when providing aid in emergency situations abroad. DID readers wi…

By: Defense Industry Daily

Defense Industry Daily — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:39:23 +0000

Filling Those MREs

Mmm, Parmesan Chicken… Even civilians are familiar with the USA’s MREs, or Meals Ready to Eat. While there are reports that the French RCIR (Ration de Combat Individuelle Rechauffable) has superior trade value on the front lines in Afghanistan, MREs…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:23:12 +0000

It’s by design sun bin. Peace Corps stores MREs at consolidation points in some countries. We were told they are designed to stop you up, and that’s quite a blessing in Central Asia. It’s all we ate waiting for evacuation.

By: Chirol

Chirol — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:13:40 +0000

On this subject: Seems the British Army’s rations aren’t good enough for Americans.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4349916.stm

The US has blocked the distribution of 357,000 British ration packs sent out to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina, amid fears they are infected with mad cow diseas

By: tdaxp

tdaxp — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:50:23 +0000

American Warship Enters Chinese Waters

“US Warship Arrives In China For Visit,” SpaceWar, 13 September 2005, http://www.spacewar.com/news/superpowers-05j.html (from Life from the FNDF).

A nice complement to an older story about an American warship docking at Saigon:

A top grade US g…

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:02:28 +0000

beware of these food, this guy said he Sh!t only every 4-5 days!

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:58:55 +0000

PLA congee with lean meat

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:57:08 +0000

PLA 1976-82 use this

1990-96, dry food

post 1996, self heating canned food

post 1996, tablet drinks

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:52:03 +0000

american version opened

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:48:15 +0000

another version

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:44:23 +0000

package 1 above, preparation steps

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:40:26 +0000

US counterpart

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:39:11 +0000

US counterpart

!http://t1.baidu.com/it/u=2589341740,2491269772&gp=0.jpg!

!http://t0.baidu.com/it/u=317945833,1076481857&gp=2.jpg!

By: sun bin

sun bin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:35:26 +0000

opening jin’s 3rd package….it becomes “energy” congee.
800-1000 Calories
comes in 3 flavors
1. spicy meat steamed rice
2. preserved vegie/mushroom + meat noodle
3. pres vegie _ meat fried rice

the capitalistic PLA has an affiliate
selling this to civilian hikers and campers, over the internet.

By: Jing

Jing — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:05:47 +0000

Here are a few links to actual Chinese field rations, unopened but with markings that are clearly identifiable.

http://static.flickr.com/31/53366143_bce795d5af.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/33/53366144_d63e725b21.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/24/53366145_ddb791d1e9.jpg

I think they are essentially the same as a US MRE, just add water and bam! The most common recipe? Beef Noodle.

By: asiapundit

asiapundit — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:31:58 +0000

rations

Via Curzon at Coming Anarchy, a display of military and relief agency rations of the world. There have been some suggestions that Taiwan soldiers would either not fight or would side with mainland China in the event of a

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:22:23 +0000

Forget China! I’m guessing they eat like that to force their army to eat off of the land.
Korean field rations must include kimchi and choco-pie though.

By: davesgonechina

davesgonechina — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:43:10 +0000

Jing, the Chinese rations don’t look like a field photo – unless it was cropped out of one, what with that black background. That aside, anybody else find the Taiwanese rations suspect? I could get the same can of fish in any small shop on the Mainland – that’s not what I’d expect Taiwanese soldiers to be carrying.

And the Russian and German rations look nearly identical… interesting.

By: Simon World

Simon World — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:16:35 +0000

Daily linklets 17th October

Back and babe-less… Plus ca change…bird flu and SARS*. Related…I wonder if the MTR charges for chickens? American and Chinese economic officials have a chin-wag*, but more importantly there is still no agreement on textile trade between the two n…

By: tamura

tamura — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:23:35 +0000

(JSDF)
http://phototec.hp.infoseek.co.jp/zieitai.htm
http://phototec.hp.infoseek.co.jp/siryou.htm

(old Imperial Japanese Army’s cooking site,all japanese)
http://www.gokoku.gr.jp/exhib-web.html

(Translation,But if you know more better translation engine or Web-page translation site, and you use it)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

...I use this site and made double-translation, But this site made very broken japanese…
I don’t eat any ration.
If you are free, and read it.

By: lirelou

lirelou — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:20:50 +0000

French officers and NCO mess food was better than most high quality restaurants I’ve eaten in on any continent. French field rations were equally well prepared and did include wine. While in France, each regiment selects its own wines, which are often bottled in a special edition with the unit insignia. Marcel Lettre (of Vermont) brought this custom back to the 82nd Airborne Division after a tour with the French airborne in the late 1980’s. I don’t know if it survived. The French Airborne School also had its own brand of Armagnac, bottled in 1941, and terming it “exquisite” would be an understatement. U.S. soldiers serving with combined forces often trade rations. One retired U.S. Army mess steward who took a job with Brown and Root managing five mess facilities in the former Yugoslavia told me that he always timed his visits to the mess to include either the French or British messes for dinner, as that was the only place in country where he could get a drink, and that field ration swaps between the Yanks and French were common. Aussies and Americans in the (Vietnam era) MIKE Force ate the same “PIR” field rations as the “indig”, supplemented with occasional C rations. PIRs were essentially a zip lock bag of dried rice that you poured water into, added a small packet of dried fish, shrimp, or mystery meat, and let set for half an hour. Aussie supplemental packs included pipe tobacco (“Dr. Green’s”, if memory serves) that made premium trading material with the pipe-smoking tribessmen and women. But back in base camp, the Aussies could really get picky and demanded Fosters or Tooth’s KB in the cooler. God help us on the days they got back to find only Budweiser, or worse, Schlitz. We occasionally had near riots. From the digger’s perspective: “Tucker’s tucker, Mate, but a bloke needs real beer to keep going.”

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:53:40 +0000

Yikes… And I thought Navy food was intolerable….

The Dutch doesn’t look too bad though…