Encampment Food

[The Happy Sergeant]

Here's the rule with MRE's: the shorter the name, the better.  When you get to 4-5 word descriptions, don't do it.

For example, the beef stew is phenomenal (in terms of MRE's).  Ham steak with scrambled eggs is not.

I beg to differ. one mre i had at encampment was Baby back ribs with potato soup. it was the best mre i have ever had.

[Cessna Man]

Ribs sounds amazing.

[AALTIS]

As a cadet two of my encampments were at AFBs (Offutt 90 & Whiteman 92).  There we used the base chow hall and had great food.  The other encampment was in Iowa (don't remember the year) at a winter encampment and there we cooked the food.  It wasn't bad.
On a similar topic is bivouac food.  We have a crew that goes to all our bivouacs and FTXs and provides the chow.  They do a great job.  If they could have a 101 qualification for ES Chef, they would be signed off.  Its a shame that in some places the cadets don't get such great chow.

[Mitchell 1969]

Tony: this has nothing to do with Encampment Food, but you have obviously never been to Korea in June and July.  The smell would make the Central Valley smell like a rose garden.

I've been there, smelled that. With CAP even, on IACE. Not to be forgotten.

[GOCAP]

it was horrible for me and the cadets!!!!!!

[ol'fido]

Tony: this has nothing to do with Encampment Food, but you have obviously never been to Korea in June and July.  The smell would make the Central Valley smell like a rose garden.

I've been there, smelled that. With CAP even, on IACE. Not to be forgotten.

I love the smell of KimChi and rice paddies in the morning. It smells like......skunk sprayed toe jam.

[PHall]

Tony: this has nothing to do with Encampment Food, but you have obviously never been to Korea in June and July.  The smell would make the Central Valley smell like a rose garden.

I've been there, smelled that. With CAP even, on IACE. Not to be forgotten.

I love the smell of KimChi and rice paddies in the morning. It smells like......skunk sprayed toe jam.

You forgot "with garlic!"

[NIN]

You forgot "with garlic!"

And 100% more rice paddy fertilizer.

(Yeah, when they cracked the door to the plane at Osan AB 27 years ago today, I knew I was in for a treat)

[ol'fido]

Luckily, I was there in March for one month of Team Spirit '90. I would not like to be there in July or August when the stuff starts getting cooked as well. I have allergies that have pretty well killed my sense of smell. If I can smell it, it's ripe.

Now when I was in Thailand in June it was probably as bad as that would be.

I do remember going down to the little ramshackle shack and ordering 2 chicken legs(I hope), fried rice, and a Coke for 100 baht because I couldn't stand the T-Rat corn beef hash for the 30th day in row. and the 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th.....