Meals Rejected by the Enemy (MRE): Bad Food Choice Doesn't Keep Navy Mascot Away

[onedef92]

Bad Food Choice Fails to Keep Navy Mascot From Army Game

PHILADELPHIA — Dec 10, 2015, 4:42 PM ET 2 Shares
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An Angora goat apparently sickened from eating toxic vegetation has been cleared for duty at this weekend's Army-Navy Game in Philadelphia.

Bill 36 began Naval Academy mascot training this season. A month ago, it looked like he might not make it to the big game with his twin brother and two older goats nearing retirement.

Bill 36 was nauseated and struggling to breathe. He was rushed from Annapolis, Maryland, to the nearest large-animal hospital, the New Bolton Center outside Philadelphia.

Tests showed he might have eaten an azalea bush, which is toxic to goats. A University of Pennsylvania veterinarian put a tube down his throat and gave him medicine to absorb the toxins. He soon recovered.

Having been lucky himself, Bill 36 will head to Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday to bring the midshipmen good luck.

[Y-Body]

Originally Posted by onedef92

Meals Rejected by the Enemy (MRE)

If you had ever eaten C-Rats, you would sink high praises for MREs.

[Uri]

Originally Posted by Y-Body

If you had ever eaten C-Rats, you would sink high praises for MREs.

-Ham Slices/ Chicken Loaf/ Pound Cake....??????? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Thats' good eatin!!

I bet all of your chow got rat f*cked.....

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by Uri

-Ham Slices/ Chicken Loaf/ Pound Cake....??????? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Thats' good eatin!!

I bet all of your chow got rat f*cked.....

I used to take the hockey puck chicken breast and put it in the minestrone soup. That wasn't too bad. I also enjoyed the pb&j. Setting in some rat hole of a place and eatin' that was like a little piece of home. The best, though, was the lemon pound cake. That shit was great.
A little funny story about the lemon pound cake. The time came to rotate back to the world. Even though I worked Air Trans and knew the system as far as passenger movement, I always had some snacks for the trip because ya just never knew where you'd end up or how long until you got there.
So, with that in mind, I had snacks including a lemon pound cake for my trip from Afghanistan. I made my trip and didn't have too many hiccups on the way. I get home, unpack my shit, and life goes on. About six months later, the wife decided to move the uniform stuff I had packed away. I happen to be there when she's moving stuff around. At one point, she asked, "What's this" as she holds my desert gore tex and a little package. I immediately see it's my lemon pound cake I had stuffed in a pocket. She wanted to throw it away. I told her no, that it was still good, and I proceeded to open and eat it right in front of her. She's laughing because here's this package from an MRE that many people talk shit about, including me, and I'm eating this part while smiling and raving about how good it is.

[Uri]

Originally Posted by boracayjohnny

I used to take the hockey puck chicken breast and put it in the minestrone soup. That wasn't too bad. I also enjoyed the pb&j. Setting in some rat hole of a place and eatin' that was like a little piece of home. The best, though, was the lemon pound cake. That shit was great.
A little funny story about the lemon pound cake. The time came to rotate back to the world. Even though I worked Air Trans and knew the system as far as passenger movement, I always had some snacks for the trip because ya just never knew where you'd end up or how long until you got there.
So, with that in mind, I had snacks including a lemon pound cake for my trip from Afghanistan. I made my trip and didn't have too many hiccups on the way. I get home, unpack my shit, and life goes on. About six months later, the wife decided to move the uniform stuff I had packed away. I happen to be there when she's moving stuff around. At one point, she asked, "What's this" as she holds my desert gore tex and a little package. I immediately see it's my lemon pound cake I had stuffed in a pocket. She wanted to throw it away. I told her no, that it was still good, and I proceeded to open and eat it right in front of her. She's laughing because here's this package from an MRE that many people talk shit about, including me, and I'm eating this part while smiling and raving about how good it is.

I'm talking C-Rats.....MRES' and I never got a long

[Y-Body]

Did you ever hump a ruck for 2-4 weeks? You could carry a lot of (read as much as you could get) ammo in place of the comparatively heavy metal cans of food stuffed into the ruck. I still have a P-38 on my key ring.
LRRP rations were major improvements, even with the globaline taste to the water.
MREs have a wider variety of meals. Plus, you can heat MREs without a fire. I will admit to sometimes during daylight burning the can of peanut butter to heat the main meal can - especially if it was scrambled eggs or ham & lima beans! Cold C-Rats =

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by Uri

I'm talking C-Rats.....MRES' and I never got a long

I've heard stories of the C-Rats eaters. Ham and mothers...

[wwomanC6]

The last time I ate an MRE, I ended up getting medevaced out of the desert for emergence surgery for a bowl blockage.

[Kerrmudgeon]

Originally Posted by wwomanC6

The last time I ate an MRE, I ended up getting medevaced out of the desert for emergence surgery for a bowl blockage.

I'd say Holy Crap but....well, you know. ...NOT!

What flavour of hockey puck was it?

[wwomanC6]

I don't remember what it was but I remember the painful medevac chopper flight from Djibouti to Qatar!

[boracayjohnny]

You said ja-booty.

Also, that'll teach you to eat the jalapeno cheese for a week straight.

[Y2Kvert4me]

Originally Posted by wwomanC6

The last time I ate an MRE, I ended up getting medevaced out of the desert for emergence surgery for a bowl blockage.

I think you meant bowel.


Bowl blockage is kinda the opposite extreme.

[wwomanC6]

Bowl blockage....it could happen!




Forget one little e and it changes the whole meaning.

[09CTSV]

MRE's were not too awful. You had to pick and choose the good ones. I do remember getting the old "John Wayne" openers in some "C" rats years ago. Everyone had one on their key chain on the ship.
The good old days. Let's play war games and serve MRE's while at General Quarters just to piss everyone off. Yes you can smell the hamburgers cooking for the evening meal but here have this cold fat slathered ham steak and enjoy.

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by Y-Body

If you had ever eaten C-Rats, you would sink high praises for MREs.

I loved C-rat fruit cocktail, peaches and spaghetti and meatballs.

[8Up]

BBQ Meatballs FTW. Used to love that MRE, maple nut cake and dehydrated fruit salad. MMmmm

Glad the goat is OK.

[onedef92]

And the round chocolate candy wafers (John Wayne bars) were dope, too!

[wicked_c6]

Originally Posted by 8Up

BBQ Meatballs FTW. Used to love that MRE, maple nut cake and dehydrated fruit salad. MMmmm

Glad the goat is OK.

Used to throw spaghetti/meatballs between two MRE crackers along with some cheese. Damn tasty eatins'. I think my favorite was beefstew, but only if I had a heater packet.

C-rat pound cake I could eat a half a tin of. Shit was good to me. I'd usually mix up a cup of coffee with creamer, make it sweet and soak the cake in it.

My fellow tankers didn't take too kindly to my eating the omelette MRE. For some reason it gave me the winds something fierce. Being a M1A1 driver, I'd crack the hatch and drop a sewage filled cloud of stank that wafted up into the turret. I have cleared a tank in under 5 seconds. Definitely didn't want me out in war time with a omelette MRE.

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by wicked_c6

Used to throw spaghetti/meatballs between two MRE crackers along with some cheese. Damn tasty eatins'. I think my favorite was beefstew, but only if I had a heater packet.

C-rat pound cake I could eat a half a tin of. Shit was good to me. I'd usually mix up a cup of coffee with creamer, make it sweet and soak the cake in it.

My fellow tankers didn't take too kindly to my eating the omelette MRE. For some reason it gave me the winds something fierce. Being a M1A1 driver, I'd crack the hatch and drop a sewage filled cloud of stank that wafted up into the turret. I have cleared a tank in under 5 seconds. Definitely didn't want me out in war time with a omelette MRE.

[onedef92]

I liked the green eggs and ham in the can C-rats, too. The male soldiers feared the powdered milk in the cartons, though, both white and chocolate. They claimed it contained salt peter which caused cock-blockage via erectile dysfunction.