[pct-l] military rations

[dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Davis)]

Good info, but I really don't think that Mountain House makes available the
whole lurp ration on the retail market.  It comes in a brown plastic pouch
just like MRE's but bigger, only one pouch is a full day's ration.  It has
lots of goodies inside besides freeze dried stuff.  There are heat resistant
candy bars, chewing gum and more.

For a while I was in charge of the Marine Cargo on a Navy ship.  We had over
a hundred pallets of MRE's and one pallet of LURPs. I almost had to post an
armed guard on the LURPs to keep sailors from sneaking in and gnawing into
the pallet to get at the candy.

It's amazing, men gnawing on a pallet of food looks just like rats gnawing
on a box of cereal only on a bigger scale.  I digress, but it was one of the
more amusing jobs I've ever had.   We finally put the pallet in the center
of a cargo hold and surrounded it with pallets of heavy stuff like barbed
wire, and empty fuel drums, tank engines etc.  Then we padlocked the walk
through door and set a bulldozer on top of the overhead hatch so it could
not be opened. Someone actually crawled into the hold through an air duct
then wormed 5' through a little tunnel in the barbed wire that I had missed
and carved into the rations pallet.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Goller" <jerrygoller@backpackgeartest.org>
To: <pct-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:34 AM
Subject: RE: [pct-l] military rations


> Sure you have. They're sold by a little company called Mountain
House...lol.
> Oregon Freeze Dried Foods (Mountain House) developed the LRRP (Long Range
> Reconnaissance Patrol) freeze dried rations during the Viet Nam war. That
> was the basis for the present company.
> Jerry
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> Anyway, lurps are freeze dried and lightweight light regular backpacker
> fare.  I have never seen them available on the civilian market, and they
are
> rare even in the service.  I only point them out to illustrate the fact
that
> even the military does not consider MRE suitable for any type of extended
> hiking.
>
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