Comments on: Buffalo Chicken, Anyone? (MRE Update)

By: reshtet

reshtet — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:53:40 +0000

You don’t sweat the smell of food you eat!
That would be awful!That would mean a stream of
gas,liquids etc…Basically a corpse smell…

By: GI Zhou

GI Zhou — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:21:36 +0000

Lame,lame, lame…The only smells you really smell is food and other non-ditinct odors not usually human smells ever are detected…Get a real imagination will ya!
Posted by: reshtet at September 10, 2008 11:50 AM
Food is what I was talking about — you sweat the smell of the food you eat, and the smell of the spices in the MREs is foreign (non-distinct odour) in many areas. Smell lingers longer in the jungle so I suggest you get some time up in triple canopy jungle and learn the art.

By: reshtet

reshtet — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:50:49 +0000

Lame,lame, lame…The only smells you really smell is food and other non-ditinct odors not usually human smells ever are detected…Get a real imagination will ya!

By: AC434

AC434 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:23:28 +0000

“…Turns out that special operators didn’t like the bulk of 27 MRE bags when headed out for a 9-day op, so they’d break them down and take out what they really wanted and leave the rest behind…“
Not just special operators, I was taught this technique in the Marine Corp during Mountain Warfare School at Bridgeport CA. At that elevation my wife’s picture was in jeopardy.

By: GIZhou

GIZhou — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:41:03 +0000

Just as long as they aren’t used where you have to carry evrything for example tracking in the jungle, perform close in reconnaissance or areas were smells linger. To survive you have to smell similar to the environment. Asians comment on the ‘beefy smell’ of Europeans, and Africans have noted the different odours of Europeans. Same with fecal(sp?) matter. The other issues with MREs, unless they have changed, is that they can’t be used to make a quick brew and all the waste packaging etc has to be carried by a patrol. The zip and heat system is great in cold climates. Soldiers will still carry ‘jack (non-issue) rations’ and split their MREs/whatever and trade so they get what they want. It is the way it has been and always will be.

By: A. Nonymous

A. Nonymous — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:36:04 +0000

You forgot the corollary to that axiom:
”…and the Navy travels on its liver.”

By: reshtet

reshtet — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:34:07 +0000

Thanks for that quote!It’s literall proving the
new testament verse…To bad ARMIES only feed their guts but not their spirits…Thats why we are in the Ur(east)now…Anyone with conviction knows they don’t accept outsiders…