re: #137 Decatur Deb

I was on a month-long exercise that included an E7 from the Rhode Island NG. She had a personal cookbook of amazing things that could be made using MREs as raw material. She went around the tent city collecting this-and-that, made some really good chocolate brownies.

When I was in the Air Farce in the early 80’s, we would get meals whenever we were on a mission of over 5 hours. If it was really long we would get two meals. Often it was a fried chicken meal w/ slaw and potato salad (AKA “Inflight Chicken”) but occasionally a box of C rats (Vietnam Era). A couple of times we actually found an occasional box of K rats (WW2!) mixed in w/ a box of C rats on long flights

So, if you’ve never had the pleasure of eating a C ration entree of Ham and Mother(fucker)s (ham and lima beans) or Beans and Baby Dicks (baked beans and l’i hot dogs) you haven’t lived. Do so at your peril!