[Milsurplus] solar panels

[James Duffer]

Don't forget the small pack of cigarettes that were in there every now and then.
73, Jim, de wd4air

> From: bluebirdtele at embarqmail.com
> To: whitaker at ieee.org; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:36:08 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] solar panels
> 
> Speaking of MRE's
> 
> If someone would put C rations back on the market, I would buy a case of 
> them.
>   My dad was stationed in Hawaii back in the early 1950's with the 25th 
> Infantry (Tropical Lightning) and he brought home some honest to god WW2 K 
> rations one day.  I remember eating something a chocolate cookie thing a ma 
> bob and the other kids sampled the other stuff.  Apparently we all loved it.
> Anyway, when I was in the service it was all C rations.  I remember 
> spaghetti and meat chunks, beans and meat balls.  Lima beans with M-Fers and 
> roast beast with sauce and my favorites: fruit cocktail and peanut butter. 
> Some good stuff mixed in with some really nasty stuff.  That's why when 
> someone broke down a case of C's for distribution it was always done with 
> the blank side of the boxes up so you didn't know what you were getting 
> until you had it in your hand. We heated up the stuff by dumping it in hot 
> water for spell.  If you boiled it too long then opened it, you got a geyser 
> of hot fluid.  Once in a while we got LRPS (Long Range Patrol Rations) but 
> they were more for the Vietnamese palate.  They did come with tiny bottles 
> of Tobasco Sauce.  Just like the bottle in the store but sized for a Barbie 
> doll.
> 73's
> Greg
> WA7LYO
> Kinston NC
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "C.Whitaker" <whitaker at pa.net>
> To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] solar panels
> 
> 
> > de WB2CPN
> > Speaking of surplus, I have a real MRE here that
> > my daughter got in Gemany some 19 years ago.
> > It still hasn't bloated or anything.
> > For the amusement of it I been thinking of putting
> > in on the bay and see what I am offered.
> > I'm too chicken to open the darn thing.
> > 73  Clete
> >
> >
> >
> >
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