Marty, I got news for you -- C-rats didn't finally go away until the mid 1980s. I remember having some dated 1954 at Fort Bliss in 1969 (with very stale Chesterfield straights). About all they did was make them "politically" correct by pulling the cigarettes out in the late 1970s. Cookie Sewell AMPS PS Woe to he who does not have a P-38!