Haha, I remember doing the same sort of thing in the Aussie Army. We were using the US M56 webbing back then with Aussie ammo pouches for the SLR. The buttpacks were good pieces of kit, when we changed to the new Auscam webbing they continued to issue the buttpack (or as we call it, the bumpack). The main meals in our ratpacks were in tins back then as well.
As I recall it, the procedure at the time for the tins was to "burn, bash & bury" them once they'd been used - burn any remaining foodscraps out of them, bash 'em down flat then bury them deep.
That changed some years later when they figured that certain enemies could still locate the buried rubbish by either metal detectors or even sense of smell in some places, and we had to haul all the rubbish back with us.
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