Meal, Ready To Eat (All you ever wanted to know)

• Johnston

  1 Dec 04, 19:29

  Don't they look yummy?
  
  Pics
  http://www.mreinfo.com/mre-inside-20.html
  
  http://www.mreinfo.com
  
  If an army marches on it's stomach, we're sure hungry.
  
  Hands up who wants 24 menus to choose from?
• greengoblin

  1 Dec 04, 20:18

  Actually the pasta bolognese is quite tasty. I remember when I went for ATEC that was the only "solid" ratio besides maggi mee that I brought along.
  
  Remember the good old days when the only thing edible was glutinous chicken rice
• Johnston

  1 Dec 04, 20:26

  Wah surely your joking?
  During our field camp nobody wanted to touch the glutinous rice, whether cold or warm.
  
  Pasta, however, got eaten up. All of them
• greengoblin

  1 Dec 04, 20:30

  Johnston...my time...glutinous chicken rice was very very good...try salivary rice or plain rice and you know what I mean
• Obersturmfuhrer

  1 Dec 04, 22:21

  When you're out there tired and hungry, anything taste good. Had that experience after 5 days of near starvation. We all grabbed any combat ration that was available.
• beavan

  1 Dec 04, 22:59

  johnston pls stop impersonating somebody....u are SBSK so why act somebody that has gone thru NS when u haven't?
• Johnston

  1 Dec 04, 23:43

  Originally posted by beavan:

  johnston pls stop impersonating somebody....u are SBSK so why act somebody that has gone thru NS when u haven't?

  so i somehow have the equipment to forge a SAF11B, procure a no .4, have reams of information on the SAF (albeit getting outdated)/
  
  *shrugs*
  You can believe if the moon is made of cheese.
  But the fact is i am myself, and i ORDEd this year, so there.
  
  
• greengoblin

  2 Dec 04, 00:28

  Originally posted by Obersturmfuhrer:

  When you're out there tired and hungry, anything taste good. Had that experience after 5 days of near starvation. We all grabbed any combat ration that was available.

  During POW right? I guess ?
• greengoblin

  2 Dec 04, 00:30

  One thing that SAF have not issued is an equipment that can warm up MRE easily. I have the fortune to try it during my NS days. It looks like a meal bag but with some chemicals it in. You pour water in the bag and place your combat rations in it and it gets heated up real fast. Extremely useful too when you have been walking in a storm for 1 day none stop.
• |-|05|

  2 Dec 04, 13:09

  Originally posted by greengoblin:

  One thing that SAF have not issued is an equipment that can warm up MRE easily. I have the fortune to try it during my NS days. It looks like a meal bag but with some chemicals it in. You pour water in the bag and place your combat rations in it and it gets heated up real fast. Extremely useful too when you have been walking in a storm for 1 day none stop.

  that's the US army bag....had fun playing with that shit lol over filled the damn thing ahha
  anyway the MRE shown is the US version....
  Oh and you guys shld try the galic chicken with rice......looks like piss....taste like peanuts
• ultimax100

  2 Dec 04, 16:53

  well whenever an army goes into combat it carries its standard of living with it
  
  The MREs do look good, but it's only natural to expect that from the US Army.
• greengoblin

  2 Dec 04, 17:03

  Food is very important to a moving army's morale... if you can provide hot food at regular intervals... the morale will be up several notches.
• Geforce3

  2 Dec 04, 20:42

  way better than ours, but ours itsn't that bad other than the gluitionus rice and hmm the duck rice, the pasta and mutton bryani is power man
• bismarck

  2 Dec 04, 20:44

  Originally posted by greengoblin:

  Food is very important to a moving army's morale... if you can provide hot food at regular intervals... the morale will be up several notches.

  i agree.
  napolean once said " an army matches on its stomachs"
  
  and the chemical pack u mentioned ? it is actually to dissolve some salts and cause an exothermic reaction(heat giving off)
• sidestep1984

  2 Dec 04, 21:56

  well..fresh food is the best.......
  was reading an issue of Mens Health UK arh....
  i wonder..the British Army has a Cooking Unit...
  They keep saying that there is so much MREs could do....but it should never replace fresh food in the field...
  Is there any such thing as a unit that does the outfield cooking?they open those big tents and makeshift kitchens and start cooking fresh cooked food for soldiers...?
• greengoblin

  2 Dec 04, 22:41

  I think we used to have army cooks to go out field to cook {heard from a friend of mine who was in div level} correct me if I am wrong.
  
  But...wow...if you get fresh food... life is really good man...I think those who went Taiwan or Thailand can agree with me
• greengoblin

  2 Dec 04, 22:43

  Originally posted by bismarck:

  i agree.
  napolean once said " an army matches on its stomachs"
  
  and the chemical pack u mentioned ? it is actually to dissolve some salts and cause an exothermic reaction(heat giving off)

  Actually SFI or DSTA can consider inventing this to help soldiers
• Devilsmarlin

  2 Dec 04, 22:52

  haiz.... i juz came from being the attached driver for RCC at SMI.... trainies quite shoik....eating fresh rations for the ,3 days outfield then convert to eating there combat rations..
  
  combat rations are prety good to eat....take it form a slacker aka driver
  biskuts and water plus mutton pasta or chicken dumpling...yum yum!
  
  but i love the pocari sweat and ice teas...
• sidestep1984

  3 Dec 04, 07:48

  Originally posted by greengoblin:

  I think we used to have army cooks to go out field to cook {heard from a friend of mine who was in div level} correct me if I am wrong.
  
  But...wow...if you get fresh food... life is really good man...I think those who went Taiwan or Thailand can agree with me

  yeah...MREs are good...but u cant always eat MREs...it should never substitute fresh food....from that Mens Health article...the writer wrote abt Desert Storm...where the US Army kept raiding the British cookhouses in the field for food becos they were onli given MREs, preprocessed food....it isnt about hunger really...
  fresh food affects a soldier psychologically....
• sidestep1984

  3 Dec 04, 07:53

  if anyone was curious...it was the August issue of UK Mens Health
• greengoblin

  3 Dec 04, 10:55

  Originally posted by sidestep1984:

  yeah...MREs are good...but u cant always eat MREs...it should never substitute fresh food....from that Mens Health article...the writer wrote abt Desert Storm...where the US Army kept raiding the British cookhouses in the field for food becos they were onli given MREs, preprocessed food....it isnt about hunger really...
  fresh food affects a soldier psychologically....

  Fresh HOT food affects more especially on a cold rainy day
  
  The person who can boost morale ooutfiled is the CQMS
  
  If the CQ comes 1 to 2 hours late... and you see other coys munching away... you know how sad you can feel man
• sidestep1984

  3 Dec 04, 11:02

  Originally posted by greengoblin:

  Fresh HOT food affects more especially on a cold rainy day
  
  The person who can boost morale ooutfiled is the CQMS
  
  If the CQ comes 1 to 2 hours late... and you see other coys munching away... you know how sad you can feel man

  yeaaaaahhh
• 01024G

  3 Dec 04, 12:29

  That's why logistics is very important.
• LazerLordz

  3 Dec 04, 16:38

  Originally posted by greengoblin:

  Actually SFI or DSTA can consider inventing this to help soldiers

  We could just adapt the tech off the the shelf, or simple produce the same system.No need to re-invent the wheel.Totally agree that hot fresh rations in the field really perks up the spirits and the morale.
• greengoblin

  3 Dec 04, 19:03

  Wonder if it is possible to create one with endothermic reaction, that is during reaction, it will take in energy... In this manner, we can have cool green bean soup and bobo hitam