MREs (Meals, Ready-to-Eat)

Source: http://www.mreinfo.com MREs are the main operational food ration for the United States Armed Forces. You can check out the MRE History page for more a more in-depth history of how MREs came to be but the short version is that the c-rations and k-rations from World War II developed into the MCI (Meal, Combat, Individual) rations used in Korea and Vietnam. Then in 1980, the MRE was developed and became the primary ration for the US. What is an MRE? The MRE is a totally self-contained complete meal. One MRE = one meal....

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