Yes, you could heat C-Rats with C4 by lighting it on fire. You just didn't want to try stomping the fire out when you were done.
Everyone wanted the pound cakes, but no one wanted the hard tack biscuits. You could have probably hurt someone throwing them at them.
And the smokes were so dry you could roll them between your fingers and listen to the tobacco crackle. Light up and two drags and you were done. Light another.
1983. MREs were brand new, and trust me, the bugs had NOT been worked out. They were really bad. The U.S. Army had cheerfully given the visiting 3/3 Marines (us) their cool bunker stored canned C's at the PÅhakuloa PTA live fire impact range. I turned my canned ham slices over and the purple "1957" ink stamp was faded, but there. The meal tasted just fine, even if it was 26 years old.
I was at Parris Island in 1967, early in the year. The C-rats I had were date stamped 1945-1947. They were older than I was.
I got to Vietnam in '69. The rats there were not QUITE so old, but old enough, exposed to heat and humidity enough that the smokes in the accessory packs had brown stains on the paper where nicotine had leached out of the tobacco and into the paper.
Oh, btw, we had to toss the accessory packs at bootcamp into the dumpster. Times we stood guard duty we would retrieve the smokes from them and walk our posts smoking...at least the "brave" ones did. I saved mine for other times.
Hi Mike, The "C-Rats" stories abound!!" Went aboard the "Sweet Pea" in AUG67 right before we went into the dry dock for our 3 yr overhaul..In the process of tearing the ship apart, someone found some really old "C-Rats" in some obscure storage space. We broke them out and they were still good and quite tasty!! 'Think that batch is where my oldest P-38 came from!! Good stuff!!! Got "C-Rats??," III%, skybill-out
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Lord, how I detested that stuff. One 58 day stretch ruined me for life.
Yes, you could heat C-Rats with C4 by lighting it on fire. You just didn't want to try stomping the fire out when you were done.
Everyone wanted the pound cakes, but no one wanted the hard tack biscuits. You could have probably hurt someone throwing them at them.
And the smokes were so dry you could roll them between your fingers and listen to the tobacco crackle. Light up and two drags and you were done. Light another.
1983. MREs were brand new, and trust me, the bugs had NOT been worked out. They were really bad.
The U.S. Army had cheerfully given the visiting 3/3 Marines (us) their cool bunker stored canned C's at the PÅhakuloa PTA live fire impact range.
I turned my canned ham slices over and the purple "1957" ink stamp was faded, but there.
The meal tasted just fine, even if it was 26 years old.
And that is why they gave you four smokes per C Rat box!
I was at Parris Island in 1967, early in the year. The C-rats I had were date stamped 1945-1947. They were older than I was.
I got to Vietnam in '69. The rats there were not QUITE so old, but old enough, exposed to heat and humidity enough that the smokes in the accessory packs had brown stains on the paper where nicotine had leached out of the tobacco and into the paper.
Oh, btw, we had to toss the accessory packs at bootcamp into the dumpster. Times we stood guard duty we would retrieve the smokes from them and walk our posts smoking...at least the "brave" ones did. I saved mine for other times.
Hi Mike,
The "C-Rats" stories abound!!" Went aboard the "Sweet Pea" in AUG67 right before we went into the dry dock for our 3 yr overhaul..In the process of tearing the ship apart, someone found some really old "C-Rats" in some obscure storage space. We broke them out and they were still good and quite tasty!! 'Think that batch is where my oldest P-38 came from!! Good stuff!!!
Got "C-Rats??,"
III%,
skybill-out
I loved the eggs and ham. The guys AROUND me didn't but too bad. Heated up, some tabasco, scrounged cheese, and you had an omelet!
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