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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 8:35:56 PM

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None of the Ohio Guard have to go to the border?

Yeah. The Canadian border. We have got to keep those people out, I tell ya.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:00:30 PM

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Hi, Ah crap I didn't want to miss AT. (curses

) A good place to get to know my new unit.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:27:21 PM

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Hi, Ah crap I didn't want to miss AT. (curses ) A good place to get to know my new unit.

Nothing like male bonding over MREs.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:34:51 PM

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Hi, Ah crap I didn't want to miss AT. (curses ) A good place to get to know my new unit.

Nothing like male bonding over MREs.

Mmmm. Nothing better.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:36:47 PM

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Hi, Ah crap I didn't want to miss AT. (curses ) A good place to get to know my new unit.

Nothing like male bonding over MREs.

Mmmm. Nothing better.

Smart people used to bring vienna sausages and Chef Boyardee. I've never met an MRE that hasnt tasted like @ss.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:38:27 PM

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They've actually gotten much better. I don't mind them too much any more. I still lose weight when I have to eat them for an extended period though.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:46:59 PM

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Put it this way, thats when I developed a taste for Tabasco sauce, which I have since lost, thankfully.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:54:08 PM

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Tabasco rules!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:57:37 PM

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If youre willing to sacrifice your tastebuds for the sake of your stomach.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 9:59:34 PM

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If that's what it takes to keep an MRE down, you bet your butt I'm willing...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:02:22 PM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:03:11 PM

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If that's what it takes to keep an MRE down, you bet your butt I'm willing...

Exactly!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:23:03 PM

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They've actually gotten much better. I don't mind them too much any more. I still lose weight when I have to eat them for an extended period though.

My first experience with MREs came about while walking my dogs in an area where the Airborne maneuvered - near Camp McCall, just outside Fort Bragg. There was a mostly burnt down school there that the Airborne would defend on maneuvers (against the Rangers, iirc).

i was walking my dogs near there after a divorce which left me broke, and i found a brown plastic package of MREs: Pork Patties (this was c. 1985). The MRE was still sealed and impervious to anything short of a bayonet assault, i actually consumed it. i soon found out WHY the guy had tossed the pork patty dinner out!!

As the name goes MREs = Meals Rejected by Ethiopians!!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:30:00 PM

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I dunno about bayonets, but I'm pretty sure that plastic is bulletproof. I think the powers that be were trying to ensure that the troops "worked up a proper appetite" trying to open the thing before they ate it.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:38:57 PM

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Yup, the dehydrated pork patty was my first MRE as well.

Nasty stuff.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:43:23 PM

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Not as bad as Potatos au Grotain (sp?). My gag reflex kicks in at the mere thought.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:47:03 PM

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Bless the Thread......I have been away to long....

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:47:41 PM

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Hi, well I like MRE's, Pork patties included. Now we know why they made me a cook.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:48:22 PM

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Mike;
Do you guys ever get sent to Fort Drum in New York. There was a state road thru the place when it was camp Drum. I was headed to a hospital in Utica for ankle surgery (in the 60's), there was a sign on the road that said something like Caution tank crossing. That was a really cool sign for an 11 year old to see.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:51:19 PM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:51:49 PM

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Oh, you guys can still hold the snake, not me.

It's raining (YEA!). This however terminates the battery charging ops on the jeep.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:54:25 PM

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Hi, well I like MRE's, �Pork patties included. Now we know why they made me a cook.

The Army moves in VERY mysterious ways... No matter which army...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 10:58:49 PM

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Mike;
Do you guys ever get sent to Fort Drum in New York. There was a state road thru the place when it was camp Drum. I was headed to a hospital in Utica for ankle surgery (in the 60's), there was a sign on the road that said something like Caution tank crossing. That was a really cool sign for an 11 year old to see.

Nope, never been there.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 11:04:16 PM

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Before they put the 10th Mountain there in the 80's it was all just National Guard training. A lot of units from all over the east went there. They also liked the place in the winter because it got really cold and could snow a lot. It's right on the edge of the Lake Ontario snow belt.

Oh did I mention it can get really really cold. When a friend suggested I move to Florida, I took him up on it.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 11:12:52 PM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 11:17:33 PM

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Back to the MRE thing. My dad said he would trade for the K or C ration, whichever one had the Spam in it. When I was growing up he was still eating the stuff. He used to fry it up.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 11:30:48 PM

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Hi, I really liked C-rats. When I was in the Corps 73-77 we used to eat C-rats marked "inspected 1968" and "made in 1944" The only ones I really hated were Ham and Lima beans but I've hated lima beans since I was a kid.
I'm not a picky eater. I like SPAM out of the can.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/11/2006 11:35:20 PM

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Is that where my dad learned to like lima beans? I hated them, but he loved them. My mom would serve them at least once a week. They got washed down with lots of milk.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/12/2006 12:33:58 AM

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Bump-.-.-

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/12/2006 12:40:47 AM

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Why?

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