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Old 27th Feb 2010, 11:27
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Landroger
 
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RatPacks?

Never having been in the military, I wouldn't normally have know about such things, but I had to spend a week in Kuwait City about a month after GW1. I was trying to fix a CT Scanner that had 'blown its brains out' on a generator, the day the Iraqi's left and blew up the power station. I flew to Bahrain on Gulf Air and thence to Kuwait on Fat Albert via Jebail Naval Air Station, courtesy of the Foriegn Office!

There was no food in the shops or cafes and I was 'dossing down', with an ex-pat who had been a prisoner of the Iraqi's, in someone elses villa! Very bizzare. Anyway, we had to beg ratpacks off British and American troops still manning road blocks in the area.

My favourite - I found it strangely exciting - was Barbeque Pork and Beans. Probably an American one then? Mind you, the Hershey chocolate was 'orrible.

Roger.
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