Date:         Sun, 7 Nov 2004 21:07:34 -0600
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Stocking and Preparing your Westy - This is not spam
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> >..how do MRE's taste.....I've never eaten an MRE.
>
> Heh. I had to live off the things for almost a month before we got
> food
> service out in the Saudi Arabian desert for Desert Shield/Storm. Of
> course,
> that was 14 years ago and they've gotten a lot better.

hmph. you guys don't know how good you had it. in 1968-1970, we were
eating c-rations. in cans. heavy as hell and no heating stuff came
with it. oh, we got cigarettes and toilet paper (John Wayne paper ...
:) and chocolate (well ... sorta. it LOOKED like chocolate).
i kinda actually like pork slices. we had one guy in our unit that
loved ham and lima beans (known to most of us as 'ham and mutha-*****'
because of the gastric distress it caused). he would actually trade
his fruit cocktail cans for the stuff. go figure.

good ol' days? not from the way i see it. ;)

unca joel