There are also landing craft, tanks and heavy guns, well bits of equipment from the landings - from
field rations to very slim guidebooks France.
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.
With what condiment did US troops in Vietnam "boost" their
field rations?
Men and women of the National Guard shared their
field rations with residents until the power returned.
Cigarettes were distributed in
field rations as late as the mid-1970s.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.