stacker1
LE
Rations were never worth the effort.Probably your garage
Too bulky and as the MOD don't sell them privately if you were caught with them you must have nicked them.
Rat packs
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LE
Too bulky and as the MOD don't sell them privately if you were caught with them you must have nicked them.
Mufulira42
War Hero
IIRC the Rhodie/ Nyasa Federal Army followed British Army in many ways and introduced a 24hr ration for a patrol packaged in thin wood slats box and bound by wire and stapled closed. Just bigger portions of Vienna sausages, bully, dried potatoes, onions, generous amounts tea/coffee- "dog biscuits" and crackers, tinned cheese and some jam tubes if he Jam Stealers ":RNAOC" hadn't got around to 'inspecting contents of said flimsy box before shipping out to the noble lads keeping the Federation safe.Must be great to be a typical Brit Tom from the olden times, who would just scoff anything and not make a scene and bring attention to himself over something as basic as food, encouraged by the gentle words of ' Wind your neck in and Just fecking eat it, you mong C*nt. '
dwills
LE
No 10 year olds in the Cadets, might be in the sea cadets, who don't get rat packs.
dwills
LE
Out of date stock, not disposed of properly!
Many moons ago when Blur Vs Oasis were the rage
Ten man packs were utilised for easter arran camps
Golden Tins with bacon burgers beef burgers and of course sausages
Who needed boil in the bag when you had lardish contents
stacker1
LE
A lot of it is in date.
There are box loads lying around after big exercises.
CaptainPlume
LE
Oh yes we do, have both 10 year olds & ORP although not many of the latter…
Pfffft. Op Something something in Belize 2006. QM miscalculated, heavy fog and mass flash flooding meant no helis and Bedford's couldn't reach us for two days. Wasn't safe to leave the area, so cue tabbing back 20 miles to a now empty arty FOB and jumping into the skips to fight the rats for the binned ORP.Pfffft. Telic. 3 months on meatballs and pasta. I built a wall with unused ones.
I remember following the coyotes around Wainwright as they would dig up the US badly filled in trenches looking for MRE’s but we were looking for 5.56 blank and any 30 round mags for our AR15’s as we only had 20 rd ones and almost no blank!
Eta, we did quite well but couldn’t convince anyone to try unopened MRE’s!
Talon
Old-Salt
I meant in the last 5 years. I forget the exact details, but I never actually saw one in person.
dwills
LE
Can you tell me which cadet force ?
CaptainPlume
LE
Sea Cadet Corps. Our Juniors start at 10 & there’s a plan for them to come in at 9.
We don’t receive shed loads of ORP, but just the other week the Royal Marine Cadets we’re having a lesson where they were cooking & eating the contents of a couple of packs.
There will probably be someone on here that will claim to have been issued one of these:
D-Day ration pack last in the world, Dorset museum says
X-rays on the waxed box show the contents still inside - including biscuits, boiled sweets and tea.
www.bbc.com
Daz
LE
And we all know who really was issued one @Auld-YinThere will probably be someone on here that will claim to have been issued one of these:
D-Day ration pack last in the world, Dorset museum says
X-rays on the waxed box show the contents still inside - including biscuits, boiled sweets and tea.www.bbc.com
Teeblerone
LE
Probably could have built a 'log cabin' with the, erm, 'used and downloaded' onesPfffft. Telic. 3 months on meatballs and pasta. I built a wall with unused ones.
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