[Sarajevo]

I have no idea what Opla is, but I might well try it. 'Splain me. ;)

Opla is Alpo, spelled backwards. During training, it was given to us as a "delicacy" of the indigenous personnel we were trying to win over.

Yeah, at times the training cadre had a sick sense of humor, but it actually wasn't bad.............

[JRandomFreeper]

Ah... I've had Alpo. Needs salt. Smells great. Works with a gravy, if you are talking canned. The dried is hard to do anything with.

Back when I had dogs, I wouldn't feed mine anything I wouldn't eat. Same with my catz. Cat food smells MUCH better than it tastes.

And I've eaten dog (Mexico and Korea) and cat (New Mexico), and most of God's fuzzy little creepy crawlies. And a lot of the slithering little barstids, too. Many of the feathered ones, and some of the skittering quadrapeds.

But I got that attitude from a) culinary school b) travel c) a mis-spent youth with friends in 'that crowd'. Not from the military.

Tactical skills are great and required, but even army guys can learn those.

Logistics... that's where things get won and lost.

/johnny