Get a close up look at this highly under-documented and uncommon U.S. Military Food Ration given to soldiers on long flight missions! This one is from the Vietnam War-Era. Enjoy! -Steve
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Shoot! A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff
I’m Thankful for my Smoked Turkey today, instead of Turkey Loaf from In Flight Ration Packs of 50 years ago. Happy Thanksgiving
Before it spoiled it sounded much tastier than the c & K rations soldiers & marines wrote about in WW2. When most only tasted good, well at least ok, if really hungry.
As a typhoontracker (weather early warning squadron, Guam) I have had my share of various rations. I am still alive so I guess that is a pretty good testimony. We flew the Super Constellation or Super Connies. Many long flights over the ocean. Boring work, until you go into the eye of the storm. 100 knot winds were fairly common. I was part of the crew. Not a pilot.
What we got in “C rats” that is not here was cigs. what is here that I never got in he field was gum. I think Nixon caved to the anti tobacco folk an had the cigs replaced with gum, I was a happy civilian by ’70, and rats were no more a “thing”.
With that voice he needs his own painting show.
This is a banquet for gads sake.
Ft. Old; my first C ration was cold chopped eggs and ham followed up with an Audi Murphy bar and a 4-pack of chesterfields. The bottom of the box was stamped “Seoul Army Depot, ROK, 1953”
The smoke were so old they burned halfway up when you initially lit them.
Hungjumper, that is the truth. In the 1st Cav. In 68-69 we had some LRRP rations. So much better than the slop that were c rations. Couldn’t get them very often but loved them when we could get them. The guys in the shit know what LRRP did.
Gristle –
I worked closely with guy that had been a LRRP. Occasionly he would talk about it. He talked…I listened with mouth agape. I wish I had written the stories down. Then he was a guard at the US Embassy in Beirut.
As a civilian he became a deep water welder and had set some depth records. He also worked at Johnson Island (look it up) before automation.
A helluva a man, and very humble.