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Top U.S. Official Meets With Rebels Inside Syria to Deliver MREs

May 092013

Deborah Amos writes: Ambassador Robert Ford, the State Department’s point man on Syrian policy, crossed into northern Syria on Wednesday. The secret visit was confirmed by Syrian activists at the media office at the Bab al-Salama crossing on the Turkish frontier.

Ford met with the head of the Aleppo military council, Abdul Jabbar Okaidi, who thanked him for the shipment of nonlethal aid. Seven trucks transported some 65,000 MREs, or meals ready to eat, the U.S. military’s battlefield rations. Syrian activists posted a video of it.

The MRE shipment is part of an additional $10 million aid package. The U.S. announced in April that it would funnel $123 million in nonlethal aid to the Syrian opposition.

The MRE delivery is also part of a policy to support Gen. Salim Idriss, elected to head the Supreme Military Command in December. Idriss, a defected general and a German-trained electronics professor, is considered a moderate.

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New Zombie Preparedness Kit Released

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May 062013

PHI Management Solutions launched the new Zombie Themed emergency kit for Bren-Mil Army Navy in Brentwood, NH. Ralph Huber, President of PHI, said that this kit is unique and specifically designed to meet the needs of people who are serious survivalists.

This kit is based on a medium-sized, military grade, transport pack. It contains everything that the ready.gov site recommends for emergency preparedness plus several enhancements. Some of the enhancements include a water purification system that can purify up to 20 gallons of water. A combat shovel that features a hollow handle that you can fill with candy or other survival items…just in case. It also features a military Meal Ready to Eat (MRE), a combat knife, tools, first aid items, and more.

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MREs Are Back (Thought They Never Really Went Away)

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Apr 112013

David Reeder writes, “The deadline for ISAF personnel to depart Afghanistan is allegedly 31 DEC 14. As the drawdown gathers steam, a lot of amenities currently available to deployed troops will disappear (including a few that probably never needed to be there in the first place). Ethnic food, food specialty nights, some hot chow meals entirely – it’s all slowly going away.”

But troops aren’t being denied food — the meals are simply being replaced with MREs!

As US packs up in Afghanistan, the return of the MRE

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Apr 022013

Heath Druzin reports that U.S. troops across Afghanistan are preparing for a reunion with a long-lost frenemy.

After years of base build-ups and access to massive dining halls with a substantial selection of ethnic food options and specialty nights, soon many servicemembers instead will be chowing down on a plateful of MRE, or Meals, Ready to Eat — also referred to by nicknames inspired by the packaged food’s taste, or lack thereof.

As U.S. troops strive to meet the Dec. 31, 2014, deadline for international combat troops to leave Afghanistan, the American military is mandating sweeping changes as support services also decline. Changes include consolidating housing and reduction of contract labor, as well as changes to the soldiers’ daily diet. All dining halls will replace two of the current four hot meals per day with MREs or Unitized Group Rations (UGRs), which are similar to a giant MRE.

The hot food reductions are part of a larger plan to return to so-called expeditionary standards, meaning a return to conditions more akin to those during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. The deadline for all bases to conform to the new guidelines is Oct. 1, though the process has already begun, said Brig. Gen. Steven Shapiro, who is helping to implement the new rules.

as US packs up in Afghanistan, the return of the MRE

Hungry? Ever try an MRE?

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Mar 262013

Writer Jill Dion notices the abundance of MREs after Hurricane Sandy, “Since Hurricane Sandy hit, there have been an abundance of MREs in low-lying towns like Milford hit hardest by the storm.

MREs, or Meals Ready to Eat, have been available at Milford’s firehouses and at the Disaster Recovery Center, which is now located at Simon Lake School. In the days following the storm, police and other emergency officials carried them in their cars as they drove around town. They have been giving the meals away free to anyone in need.” Click the image to read more.