Originally Posted by
ex-fast-jets
Now that, TEEEJ, takes me to a very different memory, many years on......
MRE's - colloquially known as Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.......
Can I say that now?............
I was visiting Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert California to watch an Army Armoured Attack at the US National Training Center which we were supporting with air....
I left Nellis/Vegas in the early hours, drove to Fort Irwin, got into a HMMVW and drove out into the inky blackness with NVG's to be in place on the top of a viewing ridge for the dawn attack. The sunrise over the desert was quite amazing - but I was introduced to a Breakfast MRE heated on the engine block of the HMMVW.
I have to say that it was really very good! Better than a McDonalds B'fast burger!
The food on the Shack was better - but the scenery at the National Training Centre California and the weather there was better!
Both give good memories, though!
Due to the MRE’s ability to stop you up (especially peanut butter and crackers) MRE were also known as Meals Refusing to Exit. I went days without crapping in Africa and the ME. Maybe that’s a good thing.