Traditional Muzzleloading Association
The Center of Camp => People of the Times => Topic started by: rollingb on September 10, 2020, 11:02:46 PM
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I brought this article over from the ALR site,.... credit for finding the article goes to Dennis Glazener.
https://allthingsliberty.com/2020/09/joseph-plumb-martins-hunger-games/
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Wow, kinda makes you re-think how you feel about C rats :yessir:
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:hairy Thank you for sharing. This is a powerful piece, one of the best I have read. It shows the reality of war in a war not often seen and even less often understood.
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Thank you for sharing. It is a portal to reality. I think that this may have been more the norm through out the ages particularly through winter. I also have often believed that the REMFs always took the best off the top for themselves. C-Rats still have some. Any one want to dine?
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We use to set our little can of beans & weenies as close to the duce-n-a-half's manifold as we could get it to warm 'em up... I bet I wasn't the only one that did this... :shake
They certainly didn't have an easy time of it back in the ARW...
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Been there & Done that...I remember being hungry enough in the Nam that once I knocked over my "ham & limas" in the dirt. I looked at 'em for a minute, scooped everything (dirt and all) back in the can...and kept eating...
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Hah! I remember doing something similar. I remember as a fng, pinching off a piece of c4 and putting in under a can of spaghetti to cook. I didn't pay a lot of attention to it and found out that you have to poke a hole down through it to vent. Did you ever try to get a plug of spaghetti back in the can? :Doh!
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It was the worst of times...it was the best of times...
:toast :toast :toast
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Hah! I remember doing something similar. I remember as a fng, pinching off a piece of c4 and putting in under a can of spaghetti to cook. I didn't pay a lot of attention to it and found out that you have to poke a hole down through it to vent. Did you ever try to get a plug of spaghetti back in the can? :Doh!
Now that's gotta be one for the books, Hank...
I don't think they trusted us with c4??? :lol sign :shake
Hank / After Lesson One
(https://i.imgur.com/QY2WLVX.jpg)
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Thank you for sharing. It is a portal to reality. I think that this may have been more the norm through out the ages particularly through winter. I also have often believed that the REMFs always took the best off the top for themselves. C-Rats still have some. Any one want to dine?
NO THANKS!, I've ate more than my share of c rats, I'd be afraid to open those things and the botulism that lives in those 50+ year old cans now!
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Hah! I remember doing something similar. I remember as a fng, pinching off a piece of c4 and putting in under a can of spaghetti to cook. I didn't pay a lot of attention to it and found out that you have to poke a hole down through it to vent. Did you ever try to get a plug of spaghetti back in the can? :Doh!
I got lucky, used the heat tabs when I was with C1/9 (yes the walking dead!) or ate them cold out of the can for a year, state side I was in a multi channel radio platoon and we had micro wave radio vans, heat a can of rats was easy, com wire it to a 10 foot stick, crack the can open to vent, hold it in front of the outgoing antenna, key the mic on hi tropo for 15 seconds, voila! anymore than 20seconds and you have charcoal!
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Heat Tabs were too scarce to use for heating my C Rats...ate them cold most of the time and saved the tabs for heating my coffee...all about priorities... :lol sign
My wife still cannot understand how I can eat anything cold...she is always commenting on how unappetizing or how disgusting something tastes if it is not heated...but, I still have to have my coffee hot...somethings never change. :bl th up