1966 Vietnam Meal Combat Individual MCI Fried Ham Vintage MRE Review Taste Testing
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- Check out this MCI (Meal, Combat, Individual) review - the last generation of the C Ration. (Pre-MRE) This fried ham was a real doozy - and the pears were a little past their prime. But the B unit's fudge bar was perfectly edible.. a very rare occurrence indeed. Newport cigarettes & of course some perfectly edible peanut butter that I just couldn't waste a bit of because it was even better than usual.
This is a little bit of a throwback review - had a real blast with making this one. And hopefully you folks will enjoy it too.
I want to thank Michelle @ / michellevillefarms
She sent some MRE's and MCI's - sadly the MCI project she provided ended up not working out, but I still wanted to give her a shoutout the first chance I got with an MCI review. So here it is!
Thanks so much, Michelle!
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Steve, after eating a 50-year old cracker: "A little bit stale."
Lol
@Himalayan Duck Vietnam war veterans wanting to see their past foods again: *"A FOOLISH MISCALCULATION"*
Reply to this if you agree with it
If it's a little bit stale,that means it's still good. They were a little stale when we got them.
@@johnsommermeyer4649 We used to make 'cratcho's' (natchos) by pouring hot sauce over them. Very little good memories, my friend...
Steve's doctor - "No".
Steve's stomach - "Nooo".
Steve's toilet - "Nooooo".
Steve - "Nice".
steve , your eating food thats older than we are from the 1980s. your eating food that from the 1960s.
Steve's rectum - "Nice hiss".
If you're living off C-rats, you ain't gonna need a toilet for three or four weeks.
Dude’s stomach must be lined with lead.
🤣🤣🤣
Memories came rolling back seeing this. Joined the Marine in 76 and assigned to H&S 1/7 and this was our meal. My dad, a Marine also ran the VC village training at Camp Pen from 70-72 and we would go to work with him. We rat_ _ _ _ _ _ these meals and pocked out the stuff we wanted. I was glad when the new meals came out and ate them in Desert Storm and Somalia. Great emergency rations. Thanks for sharing.
I'd love to see you review something from a five star restaurant, you make a 52 year old canned ration sound amazing.
SRT8 Madman you mean 3 star i hope.
I wanted to write the same. I love the fact that these fucking reviewers lie so fucking much about MREs.
LMAO!
SRT8 Madman ,,. I
Roach coach
If Steve wins the lotto there's gunna be a mass MRE shortage.
Jestronix Handerson xD
He would eat one for every meal
😂😂😂
1 year later. COVID-19 hit and we have an MRE shortage. Offf.
Lmaooooooo
In March '69 my infantry unit was sent to a small base. It was pretty miserable, but then a bunch of Australian armoured cavalry guys showed up. They were disinclined to engage in misery. The Australian field rations were really, really good. We were happy to swap and sample each other's rations. The part I remember was unlike our powdered coffee and powdered creamer, the Ozzies had small tubes like toothpaste tubes with condensed milk and concentrated tea and coffee. We both agreed their coffee kit was far better than the U.S. stuff.
wife: "hun, what are you doing?" Me: "watching Steve1989 smoke cigarettes and drink coffee", Wife; "Nice, Mkay!"
Lmao
They just can't understand
I remember beginning to work at a gas station when the last of the men were returning. Most were broken, all didn't and many couldn't talk and then the divorces began. You could however see that they would do anything for you unless they were really messed up.
Watching this series makes me question my life choices. Why am l watching someone eat 50 year old food. Bigger question is why is it so fascinating?
Geez, me too.
It's all personality, dudes a beast
it is simply fascinating... without any reason.
It’s fascinating to me because if I eat Mac and cheese, McDonald’s, eggs ....just normal food then I am paying for HOURS! He eats 50 year old food and says it has an interesting smell. Eats it all and walks away unscathed. Plus, he looks like a male model stepping out of a GQ magazine. Just fascinating.
Well, I think it's because Steve has found a really fascinating way to experience history. I hated history when I was a kid, all sanitized and stale. Steve goes into a ration and literally tries to experience the things of the past first hand. Granted, sometimes it has gone or it's inedible, but the effort makes the experience of history deeper and more memorable. Also, we're always secretly sitting here wondering what sort of bad-way Steve might end up in from some of these. 🤣
That was great mate. It never ceases to amaze me how long some components can last when stored correctly.
Hey Dropbear! It's all about storage conditions. This was in the top 10% of that era in terms of preservation.
Indeed. Seeing things like this keep after all that time is very impressive!
Brave dude! C-Rations were tolerable back in the day, but 50-60 years aren't likely to make them better. I was in the Marines in the early days in Vietnam and we had C-Rats made in 1942! Canned bread was rare but was in some of them. We had names for all of them: I remember "Beans and Balls" (meatballs in beans), "Beef and rocks" (Beef and Potatoes). "Beans and Weenies" (self-explanatory) , and of course, "Ham and Mother___ers" (Ham and Lima Beans). The only way we could eat the Ham and Mothers was to drain all of the liquid from the can, fill the can with water, heat them, and then drain all the liquid again. I always promised myself that I would find out who ran the "Blue Star Food Manufacturing, inc" and make them eat their own rations, forcibly.
Had to be careful to destroy the cans because if the enemy found them, they'd stuff an M26 frag grenade in them with an instantaneous fuze and attach a slack wire that ran down in the grass, waiting for someone to snag a toe. Remembering those things still keeps me awake at night.
My father was in the Marines and he also said many times the ham and lima beans were awful even when you haven’t ate in a few days they were hard to eat, so I can only imagine being in that hell and having to eat crap like that.
16:50 "the more I poke at it, the more the smell eminates from it"
No truer words have been spoken
😂
😂😂
"now it just makes me wanna smoke a cigarette"
You are so brave; thanks for the deep dive into this almost forgotten history! When I was a forest firefighter with CDF in the 80’s, we lived on these for days at a time until we could get relieved and get back to camp. When you’re exhausted and starving, anything tastes good. We had the advantage of them being less than 20 years old.
Steve you are the bob ross of TH-cam reviews.
Vincent Falcone my thoughts exactly
Vincent Falcone also my thoughts, The reincarnation of Bob Ross 😂
True, very relaxing
Lol yes well put
I've been binge watching his videos...I just realized how buff he is 0.0
"Smells like some really weird, old ham."
I think that's because the contents of the can are, indeed, ham which is old and could be called 'weird'.
Steve, please please please:
1) House Tour
2) Q&A
3) Work out routine
Thank you!
Vevake Sur yes please
Vevake Sur YES
everyone like this
Yes!
Vevake Sur
No.
I ate c rats for over two years and learned to eat what ever I got. One thing to remember about the chocolate was that it was tropical chocolate that was made to not melt in the heat so things that were not normally added to chocolate were there. I seem to remember that the chocolate had a waxy coating on it. But like momma used to say “when you get hungry enough you will eat it “.
He just can’t get enough of that chemical laden fudge round😂☠️
we called em shit discs
Hi Marla
They be were good. My favorite was the vanilla fudge.
I joined the army in 1979. I was stationed in Germany at a combat engineer unit. Actually located in eschborn. And for the whole time I was there this is what we had back then. I guess just leftover c-rations that they had to get rid of. But that's what we ate every time we went to the field. And that brings back some great memories. Thanks for sharing
WOW, I never got a "fresh" can like you have. The fudge was nicknamed "hockey puck", then the "John Wayne" crackers, the "flammable" peanut butter (yup, pour off the oil - lights right up), the gum was always stale, the creamer & sugar were always in clumps - not powder, didn't matter much cause it did nothing to enhance the coffee, pears look normal as does the ham (need a strong stomach for this stuff). The matches & smokes were good and of course the best for last - the toilet paper. You had to get serious with this generous portion and use BOTH SIDES to get the job done.
Tanks for the memories!!
Steve sounds like he’d lull you to sleep..... but Steve looks like he’d choke you to sleep.
He Protec,
He Attac,
But most importantly,
He put unsmoked Winstons bac in pac.
@@jibb1451 Right On!
For reasons currently escaping me, this video was entertaining and satisfying to watch. Well filmed and enjoyable, thank you for sharing this! You get a like and subscribe good sir!
I remember eating those C-Rations in 1967 while serving in Vietnam, however, our C-Rations were leftovers from WW2. even some of the cigarettes had weevil holes in them. We would dig a hole, build a fire with the excess charges (gun powder) from our Artillery guns, (105mm) use a metal fuse box to heat up the water and throw our cans In there to heat up the Rations.
Blast from the past! I liked the C rat with scrambled eggs and there used to be one with a corn flake bar. There also used to be something called a LRRP ration, I was freeze dried in a bag, you added hot water. Everything needed Tabasco.
that was the one they gave us when water was scarce to hydrate them. Never knew if that was planned or not eat plenty of that dry
I sent for hot peppers from home,my Mom sent a ton of stuff.
Steve starts doing animal documentaries...here we have a king cobra..nice hiss!
Loved your video. Lots of memories. My favorite was eggs ‘n ham. No one else wanted them so I could always count on my favorite. The chocolate bar tasted like soap. After 50 years am still carrying my P-38 can opener from when on active duty. Years later, when in Reserves, after eating my first MRE ( Mr. E), I appreciated how good those C-Rats were..
The mre’s actually tasted better, I thought. And there was more variety in each pouch. So it brought up a whole new argument about what tasted good, and what was crap. But seriously, the mre was a smarter packaged meal. You could slip the whole meal into your shirt, and your Lce would keep it there, until you got a chance to eat it.and that Kevlar plastic package it came in was waterproof. And that flat chemical immersion heater! Just add water. And then, they added a little bottle of hot sauce. I always found that kinda funny, like hmmm, something to cover up the nasty taste of the main coarse. All these years later, I can still get a little queezy , just thinking about mre’s.
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol and when it denatures, it tends to develop a rancid, rum like flavor
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Steve just uploaded a video
That's *NICE*
That's poetry right there.
Steve1989MREInfo Not bad, pretty good!
Steve is staring to look like a soldier from the 60s in vietnam after eating all those MREs 9:58
I bought a trunk at a 2nd hand store and it had a WWI era ration in it called an A ration. It had hard tack and chocolate in it made by Hershey. It had peanut butter and a chicken mash in a can. Everything was canned all of it seemed good the only thing I tried was the peanut butter and the chocolate.
Some of us used the peanut butter to heat the meal. It burned beautifully..
Oh yeah? Interesting!
Yeah just put toilet paper in there
"Unbelievable chemicle smell", nods head and takes another bite. Your videos never get old
You should do a video on that shelf with all the cool stuff on it
I'll do that one of these days.
Steve1989MREInfo please do a collection overview
I noticed the Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti cassette, The Bruce Willis album on that shelf. Lot of other good things too! :)
Is that Kyle Reese in the frame? I had a Bruno album back in the day. He put together a whole blues band and plays pretty good harmonica.
He NEver tests the toilet paper.
Everyone keeps asking Steve to make a smoking compilation or coffee or biscuit compilation, but what about a TP test compilation? Everyone poops and a soldier being able to handle their business while surrounded by enemy forces might go a long way for morale. Knowing your enemy has poopy, sticky, stinky buttholes while you sit on your clean, fresh butthole on the other side of the battlefield helps.
jammadamma he probably did , the second he stopped filming
jammadamma did ya see what he ate
poopy, sticky, stinky buttholes lmfao oh man too funny
Bet the flavor on the TP didn't hold up.
In Tech School, we were issued C-Rats for lunch. Us smokers kept the B unit can as a ash tray for the dorm. On my first assignment walking thru the commissary in 1983 they had a fire sale on C-Rats, MRE's were being brought out, I bought 4 cases.
Glad to see you posting, Steve. You're my favorite MRE reviewer man! Nice!
Hey thank you, SampleText! It's great to be back in action.
This ration is the same when I joined basic in 1980, with that said we were eating Nam era surplus food that was 15 years old. I'm still alive and feel good.
I hated the chocolate nut rolls. 😝
C's kept a lot of folks happier than you might think.
Your reviews of cigarettes make me wanna smoke now.
ITS A TRAP
Those vintage smokes would be excellent! Smokes today are "nicotine delivery units".
Smoke a cigar. Now that's a smoke.
Stomach: Am I a joke to you?
I now find myself talking like Steve when I describe food. Nice!
M'kay
"Coated my throat with a rancid.. sugary... fiery type of flavor"
Proceeds to eat the whole thing
Beans and franks meal was the most popular. Officers would go thru the cases and pull these out. And anything else too good for EM. Overall the food wasn't bad. Meat, etc., was much better heated. We used an old c-rats can with holes punched in it, a cube of lit C-4, and put the can to be heated on top.
Steve: * opens can of BROWN pears *
Also steve: "oh yeah, those look pretty good"
PURPOS3 Productions 🤣
Beans and Franks was my favorite meal. We would trade around. I didn't care for the Ham and Limas, but they were all good when you're hungry.
@bufordjr ... Army Infantry NCO, III Corp RVN 68-69, 16th Inf Rangers. ... When I drew the Ham & Lima Beans meal, I'd toss enough of the lima beans to make room for other ingredients. Added the plastic pimento cheese spread and a bunch of broken crackers. Stir thoroughly, add some precious water, quickly scald it over a ball of burning C4 plastic explosive. It made a tolerable meal.
I quit smoking 2.5 years ago, but I would never pass up the chance to smoke a 51 year-old cigarette. Especially a Chesterfield! Getting Newports would be my luck, but I wouldn't pass them up :)
And I almost gagged when I saw the milky liquid leak out of the ham can.
Go buy a pack and wait
That Newport looks like it took you to a whole other realm I’d love to try one of those old school menthols I’m glad they were preserved enough for you to smoke you enjoyed it for us all lol
Coffee and a Port.
Best combo.
And then taking a dump 30 minutes later.
Cigarettes and coffee are like peanut butter and jelly.
The tri fecta
You have the absolute best channel on you tube . Keep up the great work Steve
An eat off between Steve and Bear Grylls would be one heck of a show 😂
my great grandmother had some canned pears from the 1940s, and they turned Brown like that too, but were still really good.
Those peanut butters can be opened and when you light the oil, it acts as Sterno. We use to take those slices of ham, put some cheese spread we saved from other MCI's on a cracker, then shove the ham slice between crackers. The peanut butter mixed better when they were fresher. And the cardboard box was said to be capable of being burned, with your main meal inside, to warm it up. I never tried it though.
I've never smoked a cigarette or hit a vape in my entire life but man Steve makes it look so satisfying to do
He's back...... nice, mkay!
It's going to be a nice week.
Hey Steve! How're doing? Thanks for another great video!
Hey Simon! Doing great man, how about yourself? You're welcome - and thank you for watching!
I'm doing great, after watching your video, my brother and I are going to eat a couple MREs tonight for dinner, Meatballs and sauce, and Penne pasta with some sausage. Yummy! Now all I need is a tray
Not bad! Hey if you need a tray go check out Army & Navy stores - I swear most of 'em have trays. If they don't they're not a true Army & Navy store.
Haha! Will do steve, I would love to try out some older ones, (C-rations, etc.) I'm just having a hard time finding them. But yea thanks so much for the advise, I'll be sure to check em' out!
Post dinner update: They weren't wrong saying "potatoes au rotten"
I love Steve's vids but whats really cool is reading all the comments. Never seen so many Vets recounting their time with C & K Rats. I know Ive had my share. 3rd AD 90-95
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Steve starts his day with Coffee Instant Type II
Dead Inside Pears are brown; ham looks rancid, next meal for steve is a few anti acids.
That coffee was better than we got in the mess hall...
Those were the food I carry in my backpack during my Scouting years in the 70's. Our house was near Subic Naval Base before. We called it C-Ration.
Was a tanker in the Army in 73, got C's all the time. Ham wasn't one of my favorites, way to salty, but I treated all the C's the same way. I'd cut an "X" in the box they came in, then open the meat ration, but don't remove the lid! Push the meat ratio. Into the empty box and set it on fire. Once the cardboard burnt away, take the toilet paper and use as a hot pad to grab the lid of the meat ration. It would now be hot enough to eat! 😁👍
The Mister Rogers of MREs! I love it! I’m hooked!
"I dont always drink coffee, but when I do, it's always type 2 aged for at least 20 years."
Central highlands had plenty of water from streams etc. Never used and official canteen cup , we used empty c ration can with lid folded back. Although we weren't suppose to, heat was gotten by using peanut sized chunk of C-4 lighted with match then placed into bottom of peanut butter can. One clamore would supply enough C4 to last for 4 to six weeks of heated rations.
How many times have you been hospitalized for food poisoning?
Richard Einstein 😂😂😂
@LAFOLLETTER wait really?
19:06 "... coffee's still warm, perfect combo." My favorite part is Steve puffin' the ciggies, anyone else? But Steve, don't take up the habit, we want you around a long time!
during Vietnam battle, I was flight crew radio operator, I would put the canned meat, etc. dishes up on top of the ARC-27 UHF radio set and the hot air coming out the top would heat these meals perfectly, Collins Radio Corp made a good dinner warmer upper. I heated many meals for the crew that way.
The only youtube channel that I've watched every video of and never miss a new one.
That's awesome, Asmodius! Not bad
I don't know why but I really love watching these videos. I was in the Navy and we didn't eat MRE's. There's just something about the idea of them that I like. I mean we had some rations in our life boats. Thankfully I never had to try them.
steve find a girl on tinder and do an mre date and video it serve her the good shit
Girl: "hey steve, what food are you gonna cook for our special date tonight?"
Steve: "Mre's"
"It says it's 35 years old..."
"Nice!"
I ate many of these rations in 1967 and 1968. I actually like some of them. Ham and Lima beans were good. The round chocolate bars and many of the desserts were good, especially something that I remember being called date pudding. The peanut butter was oily and had to be stirred, but it was very flavorful. The little packs of cigarettes were a good touch, but started me off on many years of smoking which adversely affected my health when I got older. I quit years ago, but a little too late. The food was probably much better when it was fairly new compared to 50 years later. Brings back memories.
I thought that most of the main courses were very salty. Never smoked so I gave the cigaretes away (for trade) - one was a three pack of "Chesterfields" and the guy who used them said "It was like smoking a flare."....
If you humidify the smokes, they may burn slower. My Dad said in the Fifties in the Mohave they used the packs from war C rats for target practice- they were too dry to smoke and were usually weird off-brands (?) no one had ever heard of or liked.
Good advice! Hey that's neat backstory - I wonder what the brands were?
No idea- maybe someone will chime in.
Watching you use that P 38 to open those cans gave me a major flashback!!!
This food was probably very important to these guys living in horrible environmental/hygiene conditions and the exceedingly high stress of life and death experiences... I bet these small, special, little food packets provided a small return to some sort of normalcy/civility for the period of time the soldier was able to consume/work the contents of these rations.
A little taste of home in a world of hell.
Even the title: Meal, Combat, Individual.
It's young men - individuals - risking their lives every day in combat - and this is their food.
Got my P38 I'm ready, We had the ham slices they were a treat I was long gone when THE MRE came out. Coffee was much too strong but sometimes we would get a packet of hot chocolate. You could always trade up or down to get enough out of a box to complete yourself a meal.
Absolutely love watching you Steve, the best part of the video was the Jack Burton shirt. I love Big Trouble in Little China!
All right! Steve the MRE Zen Master has posted another video! No hiss! Nice!
Hey Michael! Alright cool, and I'll be comin back with something new tomorrow!
Cool. Keep up the good work. Really enjoy your videos.
Steve1989MREInfo or old!
I was in the 10th SFG remember during Re Forger i1980 n West Germany at Graf eating many of these types of C Rats, I loved the crackers and round fudge bars. Used to make Ranger pudding out of the hot choc, sugar and cream Yummy
WHY OH WHY R THESE NOT MONETIZED?!?!!!!!!!!
I did the math, 1m views is like 8k, just for this 1 vid.
1972 at Camp Edwards I had an office in the warehouse on a railroad siding. EMs from the veterinarian detachment at Camp Mosier would inspect the incoming food, and occasionally open a case of C rations and check them too. The canned pineapple in particular would cause him to condemn a batches of C rats. He'd open a case of c rations, check 3 cans, and pass out the rest. Open a bag of frozen beef, defrost and check a piece, pass out the rest. He would give the stuff to the Korean civilian warehouse workers, who absolutely loved his visits and had a very meaty diet.
When I was in basic training in 1977, we were issued C-Rations dating from 1968 through 1970. When I deployed to West Germany later that year, we were still eating C-Rations dating from the early to mid 1970's. I re-enlisted in 1991, and MRE's were the standard meal. I preferred C-Rations because we could vent the can, and heat it up on the engine manifold or heater vents of our M-113's. Oh, the memories!
I was in the Army from 83 to 86, it was in late 84/early 85 when they switched to the MRE's, let me tell you brother you can thank your lucky stars you didn't have to eat that first generation of MRE's, man those things were horrible, we were begging to get the MCI's back.
I read where by the late 80's they'd had so many complaints about them (I hope some of mine helped) they developed new menus for them.
It's like the first generation of BDU's I got stuck suffering with, those things were so hot in the summer they were absolutely unbearable, like the MRE's by the late 80's they fixed them by going with a lighter material that had the rip stop strands in them like the old jungle fatigues, I got stuck suffering with the early versions of both of them, the MRE's and the BDU's.
Re-enlistment was not an option.
@@dukecraig2402 Yeah, during my second enlistment in the 90's, I hardly ever wore the heavy BDU's that we were issued, but instead wore rip-stop woodland camo. Much more breathable and comfortable. Sounds like the first MRE's really sucked. Should have made the Joint Chiefs gobble down a few before issuing them to the troops!
I was in the army in the 1980’s, and I recall the C-rations very much!
Steve's toilet: "Oh shit, here we go again."
Steve's arms... nice!
Right just oof
surprised you opened those smokes they're valuable .. newports are so freekin rare, those were typically for the colored GI's or traded with them if you happened to get, em 1 in 10 K's were menthol..
"Why do DEEZ NUTS.... not go.."- its the best part of the video. 7:35
I was looking for this comment.
MD.Nurul Alam Chowdhury very stale meme
Me too.
Wow that's nutty and decent.
Looking for this in the comments.
Not dissapointed.
Great as always!
Hey Wesley, thanks man!
Steve1989MREInfo Hey ya kinda reminded me of myself there for a minute, smoking a Newport! Man you rode my ass to quit those things!
Fun fact what my grandfather used to do to heat not only his coffee but the C Rations in the field during his time in Vietnam was he would use a little bit of C4; set up a makeshift Espet stove and then just light a tiny amount of C4. The fire would burn like a MOFO but in about the time it finishes burning your coffee and or food is heated and cooked.
Dude. You have mad p38 skilz! LOL. I remember buying these rations at the army surplus stores in the early 80's and taking them camping. The canned fruit was the best.
Fasted P-38 in the southeast. hahah
Oh man that sounds awesome - I hope these vids deliver a little nostalgia then.
love that maniacal smile.excellent video dude!
Steve!! You're smooth like chocolate when you smoke!
Hey Anna! Not bad!
Steve is positively adorable when he waxes poetic about the smokes. He gets so excited! Sometimes even shakey like an excited kid at Christmas. I wonder if he smokes regular modern cigarettes or if he's he's spoiled from the finely aged mre smokes? (Or just isn't a big smoker to big with?) Inquiring minds want to know!
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen. Good job buddy you’re awesome well sad.
the more i poke it the more the smell emanates (continues to poke)
@3:14 anyone else get a mini jolt of excitement when Steve smacks a ration packet around? shows it whos the boss.....
We were the very lasy guys to get issued these meals back in the early 1980's. They were actually pretty good
When we would leave Cat-Lo headed to our patrol in VungTau harbor, I’d set some of those cans on the top of the diesel engines on the way out. Ready to eat in about an hour…. 😄
Thanks for your service brother.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories thank you👍🏼
@@prmath stay safe brother. My Uncle was there from 68-70.
Man, I was genuinely nervous for him when I thought he was going to eat those brown pears.
Anyone else chub up when Steve smokes a cigarette?
@Heschewingonit 🥰😍😍😍
Had to buy a pack, he got me jonesing for a cigarette.
i dont even smoke and he makes me want to
Dude you have an amazing Beard keep up the reviews they are an awesome tid bit of history.
The music is perfect for these vids, man. It reminds me of some old school Rambo or Missing in Action James Braddock Vietnam type stuff haha
Hey David, thanks man. I never knew what to put these tunes to when I wrote them all, and then it all just clicked for me after I started these YT videos. It's nice getting to use them for something finally.
Steve1989MREInfo you make the music in your openings. That is awesome Steve
Did you really just put a lucky in those newports?! Hahahaha nice.
I was a Marine platoon commander in Vietnam 1968-1969. Hard year. One C-Ration had to last a day. In this case the Pears were called a "heavy" because it was the big can. The Ham was called a "light" because it was the small can. We had either a heavy or a light in the morning and then the other can in the evening. The coffee was terrible but that could be because of the water we used. Water resupply in the field was no practical in those days so we filled our canteens with whatever was naturally available. Worse case was using rice paddy water. I'd save the cocoa pack from other C-rations to mix with the coffee to kill the taste. C-Rations generally tasted terrible, especially eating them for most of the year. The ham steaks in this video wasn't too bad. We'd form a fork from the wire that packaged the C-Ration case and cook them over a heat tab and season them with some salt and pepper. Ammo was far more important that food and resupply was sporadic at best.
Turkey Loaf was my favorite. Others like Ham and Limas, Beans and Franks, etc. were horrible so we would cut up the small wild peppers and add them in to kill the taste. These peppers were super hot. They make your eyes close and nose run without stopping. Also severely burn your mouth--but it was worth the pain.
Lots of memories.
Thank you for serving, and sharing your experience!
Thank u
wow, thanks for sharing those memories. you guys were all hero's!
Dong Ha , Camp Evens 1968. Night mares still
So cool, thank you for your service and for sharing your story and experience!!!
I sure don't miss those MRE'S. But, I do miss my legs.
Lieutenant Dan Taylor Sure you can't *walk* it off?
New legs😔😔😔
You got new legs at the end of the movie.
Shouldn`t have eaten them..
Maaagic leeegs