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

wpadmin — Thu, 09 May 2013 23:45:32 +0000

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

wpadmin — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:43:31 +0000

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)

wpadmin — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:56:49 +0000

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

wpadmin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:05:02 +0000

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.

Hungry? Ever try an MRE?

wpadmin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:31:11 +0000

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.

Looking For Worms In Army Food, Russian Inspectors Make Unsavory Find

wpadmin — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:22:40 +0000

Claire Bigg, of Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, reveals another Russian food scandal: a report published by Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s food safety and sanitary watchdog, says food at the base was stored in “gross violations of sanitary norms.” The walls and ceilings of the storage room were covered in mold and peeling plaster. The agency mentioned rusty food cans. It also found fault with the storage of grains.

“The bags are piled up directly again the walls,” it says. “There are rodent droppings and garbage under the bags.” As a result, Rosselkhoznadzor says much of the foodstuff stored at the army base contained mold, rodent droppings, as well as ticks.

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Japanese counterparts relish US field rations

wpadmin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:05:28 +0000

Sgt. Jess Williams writes, “MREs (meal ready to eat) are issued to soldiers in a field-training environment, mainly for long shelf life and ability to be hastily prepared. U.S soldiers often think of MREs as a dissatisfying substitute for a home cooked meal, but for Mr. Iga, a local employee of the Tohoku Defense Bureau and Mr. Yukinao Kitahara of the South Kauto Defense Bureau, it was a new and exciting experience.” Read more.

War Zone Eating: MRE Improvement, Bartering, and Veterans’ Best Combat Meals Ever

wpadmin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:37:26 +0000

The Sporkful, with Dan Pashman, discusses how “sometimes people in the most difficult circumstances are the ones who find the most creative ways to eat well.” In this episode of Dan’s podcast, he speaks with military veterans about “ways to make military MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) more palatable, mess hall strategy, and the importance of bartering for better food in a combat area.”

Dan also eats three MREs himself and experiments with them. The episode ends with the vets sharing their best war zone meals, which Dan says, “serve as a reminder of the power of the right meal in the right moment.”

Hungry? How about an MRE?

wpadmin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:12:04 +0000

Since Hurricane Sandy hit, there have been an abundance of MREs in low-lying towns hit hardest by the storm — Milford and Stratford among them.

Click here to read more of the Stratford Star’s take on FEMA’s MREs.

U.S. Gov’t – Meals Ready To Eat (MRE): The Bite

wpadmin — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:28:51 +0000

What are you thankful for?

‘“When you’re hungry enough, you’ll eat anything and be grateful for it,” [my grandfather would] say. Being a spoiled baby boomer American I always laughed at this, but as I got a whiff of the pork patty, I finally could empathize with his comments.’

Blogger Fernandez says he’s thankful for MREs this year, in the wake of Sandy, comically adding that, “an MRE would make a hell of breakfast after a long night of drinkin.”