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Old 04-03-2019, 03:47 PM   #1116
undercoverbrother
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
I just ate a lot of peanut butter as undercoverbrother suggested.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
I always bought canned tuna into the field with me. The cans were small, and Tuna is a great brain food.

Also hot sauce, it is your friend. I always had a bottle of it in my webbing.

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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay View Post
Yes, I too was surprised by this size of the packaging but that seemed to be common with all countries. The only really compact ones seemed to be for pilots for obvious reasons.
Prior to going to the field these rations get field stripped. You go through them, take out what you want to keep and get rid of the boxes and extra bulk. You can usually get it to half the size or less of what you see in that video.

He is a quick one of buddy doing a US MRE, same concept:




Travel light freeze at night.
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