How did you entertain yourselves in Vietnam/Desert Storm/Beruit, etc

[leroy8541]

For Fun? anything to take your mind off the desert. Playing chicken with a K-Bar, playin Spades, Sleep, more sleep, fist fights, doggin the boots, aquiring beer from the Brits, they had Johns courage nasty but drinkable. Finding ways to make the MRE more palatable was a favorite past time. Gathering at the wagon wheel for "coffee".

[CPL-Mac]

Originally posted by gehrij
[B]Acquired items from the Army!!
NOBODY questioned a clipboard!!!
When C.O. asked for ownership I became very dumb.

I can't say enough about the power of a Clipboard

It's strange hypnotic powers are akin to the Jedi Mind Trick.

"These aren't the droids we're looking for......move along"

[2091351]

W T F was a MRE? In '65 no one had ever heard of them!!! We dined on WWII/Korean War C's if we had too. Most of the time we had a wonderful field kitchen (Kerosene Stoves) dinner. Still can pick up the smell of burning K or JP4-5 at 500 yards.

Steve

[greybeard]

Steve-re MRE's-I did ask for inputs from the younger Marines too. I don't know which would be worse. Eatin something that has been dried out and 'reconstituted', or eatin those gelatinous canned 20+ yr old ham pucks. I just never would look too close at those things. Not sure some of the white things in there weren't chopped up pig's eyes.
What was the name of that danged Vietnamese beer?
Stealin from the Army was always fair game-they had plenty anyway. Cokes I could usually get-something to mix with them was hard to find. During monsoon, I swapped an Army sgt a poncho liner for a bottle of vodka once, had to mix it with orange bug juice. It wuz better than warm Falsaff. I tried it again a few years ago-tasted like crap. Must be gettin old.

[Dvan]

[QUOTE] We dined on WWII/Korean War C's if we had too. [QUOTE]

Ah yes, c-rats. I was in from 81-87, during the transition from c's to mre's. Both leave MUCH to be desired, but I've noticed, the hungrier you are, the less you care about the taste.

We were in the field once, finishing off a case of c rations, when one 18 yr old Marine got to looking at the can his 'main course' had come in. He got a funny look on his face as he gargled, "I just ate a turkey that's older than me!"

Moral of the story:
DON'T READ THE LABEL!!!