Re: How about eats?

["GerneyLee Carter" <cartergramling@msn.com>]

'can hardly wait to hear how you got clean.
   In the novel Dog Company Six, he makes the point that if your socks and 
clothes become too dirty they can no longer provide warmth!   Did anyone 
higher up KNOW how bad things were?  Or didn't they care?  You were young 
fodder for the cause....?   so the little clothes you had couldn't do 
ANYTHING once they were filthy, huh?


----Original Message Follows----
From: <RonaldS842@aol.com>
Reply-To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
Subject: How about eats?
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:05:03 EST

    The troops in Korea were fed two hot meals a day whenever it was
tactically possible. Three hot meals was desirable but a minimum of two,
normally breakfast and supper. It was a terrific morale builder among the
forward elements. Powdered eggs and powdered milk!
    The C ration was the most acceptable field ration. Everyone liked it. 
The
relative acceptance ratings of the meat items were (1) beans and 
frankfurters
(2) beans with pork (3) meat and beans (4) ham and lima beans (5) spaghetti
and meat (6) hamburger and gravy (7) pork sausage patties with gravery (8)
meat and noodles (9) chicken and vegetables (10) beef stew (11) corned beef
hash.
    This was a combat ration and one of its characteristics was its 
capability
of being consumed hot or cold. The reaction of the men was that the only
items acceptable cold were the bean items. The principal complaints were
against the meat and spaghetti and the meat and noodle combinations. Both
items were too dry and when heated they would burn. The hamburgers and the
sausages had too much fat and too much gravery. In the C-4 and the C-6
(previous Army combat rations) there was  a chicken and vegetables
combination which the men disliked.
    When asked about individual combat rations the answer  was "where is the
spoon in the C-6? The men carried nothing, soldiers are stripped down-no
packs-just the clothes they wear. Men would lose eating utensils At first 
the
C rations came without spoons and men were eating beans with their fingers.
One Marine Col. cut his fingers trying to make a spoon from the lid of a 
can.
Plastic spoons are a must.
    At first a can opener was included in each accessory pack. Every soldier
had a can opener in his pocket or on his dogtag chain. He was afraid he 
would
not have a can opener when he wanted to eat, If he had a can opener and got
hold of another he saved it. A prize example is a colonel who had one can
opener on his dogtag chain and nine in his pack.
    How about a chance of keeping clean, I'll comment on that next.

Ron







Regards, Gernilee


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