The Survivability of C-Rats

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 11:22 PM 8/1/2000 EDT, CavKVet50@aol.com wrote:
>LOL - I was with an active Army Reserve unit in 1965, still eating those 
>great-tasting B & M beans canned in Portland, Maine. Still packed a powerful 
>punch! C-rations were on there way out then and the remaining stores were 
>foisted off on reservists. 

C-Rats survived until 1982 before being replaced by MRE's.  The Active Army
certainly had them:  I ate more than my share in the 1970's when I was on
active duty.  We had WWII dated C-Rats when I was in ROTC Camp at IGMR in
'71, Korean-War era C-Rats when I was in my OBC at APG in '74, and
Vietnam-era C-Rats thereafter.  I never saw any C-Rats made after 1972 or
though.

Marc

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