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07-03-2010, 03:02 PM
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Military Ration Information
Don't know if any of this has been posted before, but MREinfo.com has a bunch of good detailed information on US military rations and the sort of major NATO players (UK, Germany, etc) and some minor ones.
They also have a discussion forum for collectors which has information on rations from all over, including some T2K noteworthies: A very good write up on the East German Army's field rations, with photos of packed (and opened) contents. Polish MRE Equivalents (I think anachronistic for 1990s timeline, but who'd really know? -- And for the truly hard core gaming group, I think the thread has links to a site you can order from . . .) Russian IRPs (MRE Equivalent) menu translations -- again anachronistic, but if I remember right there's a website that mostly does WW2 reproduction rations for reenactors that does a repro of the Afghan War-era Soviet Mountain Ration. And various other threads covering a lot of detail on popular MRE equivalents, as well as some details about many smaller nation's rations. 
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07-26-2011, 07:07 PM
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A little thread necormacy here... But I was wondering about the field rations that would be used during the Twilight War... Most MREs and pre-packaged foods that had been made and issued before the nukes flew would be used sparingly, bringing back the old fashioned field kitchens and beef on the hoof supply trains that would be used when in cantoments and other camps.
But this is about Field Rations... my dad said that some camps in theater Vietnam had the ability to make freeze dried LRP Rations... Does anyone know anything about how hard it would be for both sides of the war to be making local versions of Field Rations?
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07-26-2011, 07:47 PM
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Preservation of foods has been carried out for thousands of years. Many of these processes such as bottling, drying, smoking, salting, etc would see a huge resurgence.
Almost none of these processes are all that high tech and some (such as sun drying) don't even require fire.
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07-26-2011, 08:14 PM
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Yes... i know, i was wondering how hard it would be to set up the facilities on a large scale to provide food for the troops while on the move. the idea of cantonments being able to produce something like the LRRP rations from Vietnam... or the like.
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07-26-2011, 08:19 PM
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Baking of biscuits and the like would be fairly simple to achieve and the product would be ok to eat for a week or two (possibly more depending on packaging). Much of the contents of such rations are likely to have been produced at harvest time and so creation of the packs would be as simple as drawing the various components from stores and packaging them up together.
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07-26-2011, 08:28 PM
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So the packs can definately be setup with a meat jerky, bread and vegies... the three staples. I know that you can make cornbread that can be stored for long hauls... i just don't know how to make hard tack.
The use of pre-nuke exchange rations would be during emergencies, while the locally made rations would be the standard they'd be getting... hell, it might end up with people actually looking forward to eating MREs...
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