• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    Are MREs somewhat rare because as an avid streve1989mre watcher everything there looks way more appetizing than this and that can’t be too hard to ship can it

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      13 days ago

      MRE’s are field food. Where there isn’t a kitchen to cook and all you have is a small stove or even a fire. Usually only combat troops like infantry get them.

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        13 days ago

        Yeah but why. Are they that rare? I feel like since they don’t have ground troops in that scenario deployed as of yet surely you could send some MREs to the USS Tripoli and then they cook them instead of serving shoesole with black gunk

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          13 days ago

          They aren’t rare but they’re field rations. Navy ships are supposed to be supplying their own food to their crews from their mess halls. They don’t deploy with field rations. MRE’s are surprisingly carefully counted and stocked for designated field units.

          Like, yeah I’m sure they could send them to the ship in question and maybe they will who knows. But ships (other than the obvious ones like troop ships) don’t go out to sea with MRE’s. Until now, maybe they’ll start keeping some for scenarios like this.

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            12 days ago

            You’d think with the War Department/Pentagon budgets, they could afford to send them some Jim “Pass the Loot” Baaker prepper crap.