combat rations

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combat rations

A generic term for military-issue food provided to soldiers on the front line of combat.

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There are also landing craft, tanks and heavy guns, well bits of equipment from the landings - from field rations to very slim guidebooks France.

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Others got a case of bottled water or military MREs, or field rations. An olive-drab military forklift moved around huge pallets loaded with supplies.

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With what condiment did US troops in Vietnam "boost" their field rations?

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Men and women of the National Guard shared their field rations with residents until the power returned.

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The spartan hotel lacked air conditioning and an internet connection, the students were fed field rations, and everyone spent five hours each day snorkelling under a blistering sun in order to count fish.

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Cigarettes were distributed in field rations as late as the mid-1970s.

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Soldiers have been asking for pizza since lightweight individual field rations -- known as meals ready to eat, or MREs -- replaced canned food in 1981 for soldiers in combat zones or areas where field kitchens cannot be set up.

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For example, it would be more appropriate to move 10 cases of field rations using a Humvee rather than an armored vehicle that weighs more than 12 tons.

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Feeding of detainees had progressed from providing American field rations to a culturally-appropriate diet prepared onsite by commercial catering companies and delivered for bulk feeding in a communal milieu.

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The past weekend's camping trip was just a practice; to give them a taste for field rations and carrying their possessions, snail-like, upon their backs.

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Soon after the LNO arrived, the 30th CSSB began shipping ration supplements to Sinjar to augment field rations. This was a milestone for the Marines in the field.