Might you, or anyone else have an idea? To you and to all the crew chiefs and gunners, from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you. Pingback: Remember C-Rations? The dehydrated pork and beef hockey pucks were supposed to be the big thing but the dried fruit was the best part. At topa C-ration with P-38 can opener. If I admit to actually liking and trading for ham & lima beans, does that imply Im strange beyond? $40.00 WW2 German Patronenkasten 88 Ammunition Crate $150.00 WW1 German Patronenkasten 88 Ammunition Crate $150.00 WW1 British and Commonwealth Biscuit Ration Crate $90.00 https://charliecompany.org/2012/04/20/c-rations/ Reply With []. Vietnam War Pin Badge Reproductions. I do not smoke so I save the small pack of cigarettes. I say all and families because a Military person has or had people waiting for them and worrying about them. I thought that smoking American cigarettes was a big mistake. We had the dubious honor of being the first Army ground unit deployed to VN in early May of 1965 from Okinawa and all enjoyed consuming our fair share of those gourmet C rations. Free shipping for many products! Toilet paper and mosquito juice in band on our steel pot to keep them dry. There was always enough for seconds, but most of us passed as our shrunken stomachs have already overextended from a single helping of this gourmet meal. When we shut down to eat we would use our really long pliers to hold the meal as the ship was running down. Spent almost 2 yrs in Northern I corps. Pall Mall, Luckies, Winston, Salem and Benson & Hedges Menthol were five of the brands found in Vietnam era field ration packets. Really love your stories. [] the bread and voila a toasted cheese sandwich. Great detail Great Job from an old army Grunt. The VC had no heart pinned down one day took out my last The new menu (late 1968 onward) included good stuff like beans & weenies. But I read as much as I can get my hands on about what it was like to have served in those times. Upon further review it becomes clear that the lists of "things" have a much deeper meaning and carry an abundance amount of . Typical commercial brands issued in the cigarette rations in Vietnam were: Camel, Chesterfield, Kent, Kool, Lucky Strike, Marlboro, Pall Mall, Salem, . I was raised on Spam in South Dakota and Minnesota since Spam is manufactured in Minn. To this day I enjoy Spam sandwiches!! Those wonderful recipes that you made up so the Cs were more palatable. It would swell up and we wood take it away from the exhaust port until it went back to its original size. This is a very nice Vietnam Era Survival Kit & Ration Packaging collectors set, with great display potential. Warrant officer. What is wrong with me? I drew ham and eggs. During the 1960s C-ration cigarettes were identical to the sample packs of four that tobacco salesreps handed out to the public. Even then I ate one like an apple but the fellows that had been there longer made c rat stew and threw in the onions. Left the nam brought one home should have seen the looks I got. $50: VE-1123 Vietnam period shoulder bag for machine gun . Balance food to be heated on bent over lid and can while fire heat main course. Im also interested in the mail service during this time period. Must have been super hot. I do have a question the meat and beans I liked but raised on beans, I recently found and on line copy of the Us Army cook book. C Ration Cigarettes (1 - 3 of 3 results) Price ($) Any price Under $25 $25 to $100 $100 to $250 . Best dessert was peaches & pound cake, but you had to trade for stuff. Explore Vietnam C Ration Cigarette with all the useful information below including suggestions, reviews, top brands, and related recipes,. Great site thanks for the memories. What I have here are various types of B units from year . I really enjoyed Meat balls & beans. God bless you and I hope that this note finds you well, Sir. c-4 was the best for heating, some 4th inf. Ham and eggs were definitely the worst.with the consistency of the congealed fat from a canned ham but ham & mothers referred to ham & lima beans. Welcome back. Never ate either one of these meals while in country. Got some Phillip Morris cigarettes in a dark brown package PM quit using the dark brown package in the late 1940s thats how old some of the Cs were. Many boxes of C's had WWII dates, but the smokers still smoked the cigarettes from those old boxes. Answer (1 of 10): I served in the Regular Army, Feb. '61- Feb. '64 and saw many brands of 5 cigarette packs in the C-Rations that we were issued. B9719 VIETNAM ERA US Military C Ration Spoon in plastic bag IR19A - $16.35. $100.00 Vintage Complete Sealed Vintage Complete Sealed Vietnam Era Us C Rations Accessory Packet Wspoon Vintage Complete Sealed Vietnam Era Us C Rations Accessory Packet Wspoon. My Vietnamese would give me a rice ball, or a cooked and salted ballof chicken, or some fish with Nuoc Maum sometimes I carried a can of chili when I could get it at the PX in Saigon. Dear Chrissy, Very well written and important for us who did not serve due to age ( too young) to learn about this, Excellent; Then mix a bunch of mosquito repellent in about a half of can.use the rest of the peanut better on the very thick (hard tack) crackers!! If you read this and you would like to try it,just give me a call at 1-800-347-2823 and i would be happy to send you a free bottle. Excellent piece and very true in every respect. On the way we had C-Rats, I liked the Ham and Lima beans, they were easy to trade for as a lot of guys like you did not like them. Thanks for summing up all the C-ration experiences. We would either just add sugar pack and eat. C-rats. After a formal retirement ceremony, dozens of friends and relatives joined Moak in the Pentagons Hall of Heroes as he opened the can to cheers. You could buy cases of beer and soda too. The heat tabs gave off exhaust like tear gas, which could drive guys out of a tent or bunker, so a little C-4 was just the thing burned hot and clean, and no danger of exploding because C-4 was a stable substance. C-packs also contained cartons of Cigaretts, M&Ms and other favorites, The blue heat tabs emitted a gas that would burn your eyes and c-4 was harder to locate for us. Hot BBQ beef. Staf Sargent Larry Bailey. I miss the guys I hope all are doing well. Same when I came out of the field and started eating mess-hall chow regularly. Got to Nam in July 68 an assigned as a pilot way down in the Delta. Vietnam C Rations and Stuff Cigarette Coupons Free Printable Free Coupons By Mail Newport Cigarettes Nostalgia Marlboro Cigarette Vintage Metal Signs Okinawa American History Vietnam War - included in each C-Ration; great for batering if a non-smoker Military Life Military History Military Food Veterans United Military Signs Military Ranks DONT HOW THEY PRESEVERED THEM BUT THEY DID A GOOG JOB TSGT CLARENCE C WOODY USAF. Cases of C-Rations are assigned and split among a squad of soldiers theres an ample supply to cover three meals per person 4.5 pounds of canned wet food for each days adequate nourishment. Wait until they run out of cigarettes and trade them for C-Rats. When absolutely necessary, Id empty the water and spoon in a can of cheese, melting it together with a ball of C-4. He was not overly fond of them, but did eat to stay alive. A small chunk of C-4 explosive could also be substituted for the Trioxin tablet for faster heating. Great articlebrings back many memories of the bad old days. Gentlemen, I was wondering if you ever ate at a local shack/stall in town or did you ever go fishing? description of C-Rations used in Vietnam: The small cans included in the meal were ideal for making a stove. Dont forget to stir before putting over fire. I got out of the field with 12 days left and went to Song Be. I do remember about a week after I was out in the field we received a case of onions by mistake. We would do the same process one more time and it would be ready to eat after you wiped it down to get as much black exhaust crap off and open it with your P38. And how did those taste? Every C-Ration meal contained a single four-pack of cigarettes; ten different brands were primarily offered, but like the meals, some were more popular than others. recovered jeep. In 1966 during the Vietnam war Brig. meal eggs always looked greenish . Blocks of c 4 began to be available, this spared claymores. I do recall being thirsty. t004. Stumbled across this interesting site. I will call and order. CA. My dad knows what its called in Vietnamese, but has no clue what it is in English. During the 1960s C-ration cigarettes were identical to the sample packs of four that tobacco salesreps handed out to the public. The standard ration pack issued to infantrymen in Vietnam was the Australian Combat Ration (One Man). Man do I remember C rations. Always cigarettes, toilet paper and matches. l would buy and eat them today if someone was to make em. I also still have my P-38. Cigarettes were eliminated from rations in 1972. $90 VE-545 Can Opener from the C-Ration Crate. I know heat tabs were around but c4 burned hot and fast. The only thing I find myself craving from time to time was the instant coffee with of course dry creamer and sugar although I think it was making it in one of the C ration cans that gave it that special flavor. It was such a shock to my system that I had diarrhea for a week! For sure peaches were like gold I was one of the few guys who didnt like them and could trade them for almost anything. Mostly they were awful but I was lucky. I flew as a Crewchief on a UH-1C Gunship. Although the meat item can be eaten cold, it is more palatable when heated. | dng sng c. OK, now that your memory is refreshed, do you remember how you cooked your C-Rations. I can't find my links right now, but a little bit of searching should turn them up pretty easily. Click Here for web printable Marlboro Cigarettes from C-Ration Accessory Pack. You could boil a canteen cup of water with a pea-size ball of it in 30 seconds. I got a flashback Ill never forget those days Sometimes I would eat the pineapples, bananas or coconuts if I could get them. I got my first Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage K Brand Rabbit Family Ration Patch Logo Snapback Trucker Hat Cap USA at the best online prices at eBay! Great. Do you remember your special recipes? Welcome Home my brothers & Sisters. Enjoy! I spent my early Navy years aboard the Lexington in the South China Sea and the worst meal I can remember was Spam in fruit cocktail glaze!! Turkey packed in 30 weight motor oil was the worst. Vietnam War C-Ration Cigarette Pack Lucky Strike Repro Opens in a new window or tab. DD345 - Liberty Pass. "Peanut butter and crackers was the best," Orbell said. I liked the Cs better. One case of C-Rations contained 6 rations. Good article. Twelve different menus are included in the specification. Need Easy, Nutritious Food While Blacktail Deer Hunting. Last time I tried to replace my Cs the price had gone out of sight. The ration had to contain meat, bread, canned fruit, and some kind of dessert. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Once I got some pancakes that had been stuffed down an elephant rubber. Only once was stupid enough to eat the WHOLE LRRP ration at onne, swells up pretty big after the water goes down! In the aviation community wed take a can of biscuits, poke holes in it, pour some JP4 into it, and voila a stove!! The military teaches you to be a thief . I could not find a meat and beans recipe. Vintage C Ration Accessory Pack, No Cigarettes $8.00 $5.85 shipping or Best Offer Vintage 1971 Vietnam Era Military C Ration Can Fortified Peanut Butter Kern Food $14.44 Was: $16.99 $4.31 shipping Only 1 left! We went through East Germany on the Autobahn to Holiefields in Weat Germany for a training mission. I mixed the cocoa powder, coffee powder and creamer in hot water for a tolerable beverage. You could take a rats head off at 20 feet with them. I was the lucky one that LIKED ham and Lima beans! Crash fire. I really enjoyed reading these replies about c-rations and your experiences in Vietnam. All individual empty cans and trash were buried prior to leaving the table unless he had another use for one of the cans. With me it seemed the meals that were my least favorite when I first arrived in country were my favorite ones towards the end of my tour. Lots of exploded food and they had to clean up the tail of the ship. A plastic spoon. from United Kingdom. George Newport dynamite and dirt merchant Combat Engineer. We would get a hot meal maybe onced a month. Reproduction WW2 German MP40 Transit Case $350.00 WW2 K Ration Heavy Duty Cardboard Packing Box (10 in 1, K Ration, Heffenreffer Beer.) A whole heat tab had to be used. Meals such as beef stew, spaghetti and meatballs, chili and others were a wonderful diversion from the mundane canned food we were subjected to. FOR SALE! I remember the first c-ration meal we received. Remember chunks of pork with an inch of grease on top. It would burn hotter and was much better for heating water. Usually the coffee, sugar and creamer had to be worked over with a bayonet pommel to reconstitute it into powder. The C-Ration was replaced in 1958 with the Meal Combat Individual (MCI). But, Nuac mam still sucks ass! wished Id known that neat way of PBJ. As I remember our C rats were marked 1941 &42. We just heated ours with a ball of C-4, i.e., after opening the can. Ad vertisement from shop noviopera. U.S.A.F. 1967 Vietnam c-rations box being opened for the first time in 43 years. 4.) Most of us knew there were others who had it harder than than we did. Back in 1958 while flying the Pacific we had only Cs for flight lunches on aerial Tankers. Yuck. Prayers-Love and GREAT BIG -Thank you to ALL Military personnel (still here or passed) and their families for serving our COUNTRY. We used to make stoves by using a can opener to open up the two sides of a small can on both sides (which were then pushed in). In 1975 they stopped putting cigarettes in rations which raised hell with US troops everywhere. Using a John Wayne (a P-38) pierce a series of closely spaced holes around the top and bottom rims of the can. In 1925, the meat ration was replaced with canned pork and beans. Vietnam Veteran Keeps Vow, Eats 40-Year-Old CakeFriday , July 24, 2009. I would start out with a half gallon portable bladder and it was gone by afternoon. Never saw anyone eat pound cake without spitting it out. Abandoned my country, Vietnam, in 1975, but that did not make me hating them. Very interesting. Give me an address and Ill send you one. Well presented and will share with fellow Vietnam veterans and family. Open can of peaches with P-38. Pingback: A brief history of coffee in the US military | We Are The Mighty, On the tug Agnes Foss we hauled a lot of C-rations around the coast and up rivers. The Meal, Combat, Individual ( MCI) was a United States military ration of canned and preserved food, issued from 1958 to 1980. Potable water ( without iodine tablets mixed) was difficult to obtain in the field. Years later I wonder if the paint was lead based? It? You are describing a military mess kit, but they were not used by most GIs in Viet Nam. There was a time shortly after making my second move to a new area we got resupplied with a case of fresh onions by mistake. Just askin, BTW: I grew up in New Orleans and knew many of the McIlhenny family. Cigarettes, once considered crucial to American fighting men, have sadly gone the way of the daily rum ration. I want to thank all the men and women who served in Vietnam. The small cans included in the meal were ideal for making a stove. Of course it was not their faults, soldiers , at first and second to be fair they needed to go home with their families. The absolute worst, in my opinion, was the ham & eggs, chopped. Id get an onion from FSB mess tent and chop them up into whatever meat I was eating, thank god LURPs became widely available for the 2nd half of my tour because I just couldnt stomach Cs other than the fruit. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all of these posted messages about C rations, even though Ive never tasted even one bite of food from one of those cans. Menu. Its characteristics emphasize utility, flexibility of use, and more variety of food components than were included in the Ration, Combat, Individual (C Ration), which it replaces. Not to bad either! and heat a canteen cup of water and it provided you with quick hot water or c rations. We never had cold meals. Most were tossed because they didnt want to clean them or carry the extra bulk in favor of the canteen cup which fit around the canteen and in the pouch plus it made no noise while you were walking around compared to the rattle of the utensils in your mess kit. There are several websites dedicated to US military combat rations that show all the brands. It tasted like the congealed fat from a canned ham. They are not any where near as sensitive as civilian explosives. Plate. Thanksgiving and Christmas 1967 saw one beer per guy allotted to the troops. My last CO also liked them. Must have been around 2006 I was surfing the web trying to find guys I served with and to my surprise I found a website from the unit I served with, 1st bn 22nd inf, 4th inf division. and more. Excellent, brought back some good memories. Smith Bravo Co. 2nd Plt 1st Bn 1st Mar Rgt 1st Mar Div, Old memories Hated Ham and Lima beans. In addition to the two carboard parts, you will need four cigarettes & two pieces of foil. Thanks for your interesting accounts, and for your service. The coffee, sugar, creamer and hot cocoa came in paper envelopes. A Marine tank commander serving in Vietnam in 1968 noted his unit was frequently supplied with older stocks of C-rations, complete with early 1950s dates on the cans. Cigarettes were bad for your health along with bullets. The C-ration (officially Field Ration . My two favorites were green eggs and ham and yes, ham and lima beans. I was a helicopter crew chief in 1967 with the 25th Infantry out of Cu Chi. USMC. The popular meals and cans of pound cake, peaches and fruit cocktail were prized and worth their weight in gold many soldiers hoarding them to barter for items during evening chow breaks; only one of each are included in every case of meals. Pleasure speaking to you. Excellent !! Others were downright awful (Ham and Lima beans) and passed over left behind for the Cherries when it is their turn to pick out meals. to a pack. Our company left San Diego with a Navy Band giving us Marines a memorable send off. We got Cs from both the old menu (1950s and early 1960s) which included such delectable stuff as ham & mothers, beef & rocks, canned bread and so forth. When I look at your blog in Opera, it looks fine but As an infantry soldier in Vietnam, C-Rations was my sole source of nourishment for at least 300 of the 365 days I served in-country. Right? My friend was in Vietnam and loved the pound cake. At times we actually had to buy cases of C-rats in Phan Thiet where there was a thriving black market. In the fall of this year I will be in a paramedic program. I never went away hungry! In the field 90% of my tour. The desserts and the B units got better, too. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Vietnam Era C-Ration Cigarette Pack www.hardscrabblefarm.com The photo above shows the components of the cigarette pack. Some of the guys cannot stand to watch me eat one. For the new guys flying for the first time, we never let them know how to do it. It woul heat a bunch of c-rats. Our squad leader was fairturned all Cs upside down and would mix up..then we would pick..No Fear!! A second or B unit might include peanut butter and crackers, chocolate, gum, cigarettes, salt, pepper, and sugar, among other items. Though intended only for use in combat conditions, troops often ate K-rations for weeks on end, and they quickly tired of the monotonous meals. Water was critical. Left out the crew chief version of a stove. When I was in there were four: apricots, pears, fruit cocktail and peaches. of my hand did not care about cut hand But mad till this day vet 69-73 does any one have a recipe for meat and beans? Almost never saw heat tabs , we called them c tabs they didnt want us to have flames. A can opener (called both a John Wayne or a P-38) was needed to open the cans. I was in Vietnam with the Marines from 68-69. Broight back some memories for me from my year in the bush. So, I have no military or Nam stories to tell, darn it! lemon aid powder was good with some descent tasting water, [] https://charliecompany.org/2012/04/20/c-rations/ [], [] freeze dried meals Ive tried over the years didnt taste much better than the C rations I ate in the military. We had c-rats (MCIs) in basic and in Germany on FTX until about 83, then we got MREs over there. I can only remember seeing cases of C-Rations stacked inside APCs along with several five-gallon containers of water when we came upon them in the jungle. Thanks for your service. I wish that cigarettes were never part of those C-rations. In 1975 they stopped putting cigarettes in rations which raised hell with US troops everywhere. I would have beer almost every day. Military explosives? There was a reason they were called Ham & Motherfuckers. It was a common thing to trade C rations for cigarettes. Pork Slices Ingredients: A typical . Moak got the drab olive can as a Marine helicopterpilotoff the Vietnamese coast in 1973. Photos of dissected original pack & other info is included in the pdf file. If somebody liked Lucky Strikes, Parliament, Chesterfields or Pall Malls, they would never run out. I get a lot of the cans of fruit cake.
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