[Kartographer]

And my understand is you best have some Metamucil handy!

[driftdiver]

“And my understand is you best have some Metamucil handy!”

When I was in there was a brownie in some of the meals. The brownie tended to work things loose.

Found that out after about 4 days on top of a mountain.

[SisterK]

It is a fact that MREs are specifically engineered to cement your stuff.

[familyop]

"And my understand is you best have some Metamucil handy!"

Yes. That was the word that went around, although I wasn't sure. I was in a combat specialty, so we didn't sleep much and were extremely active--conditions that cause constipation regardless of diet type. Three of the MREs per day as served to us could make sedentary folks put on weight really fast (only a little less than 10,000 calories).

And Two Kids' Dad, most of the ones issued to us in the early through mid-'90s had a tiny bottle of Tabasco sauce in them. ;-) I enlisted in '89 at the age of 31, BTW (called "old man" and all of that during our initial training--one-station unit, 13 weeks and more rough than for most most other specialties, even for National Guard soldiers like me).

Hmmm...searching this deteriorating Baby Boomer brain for an MRE story... During some classes in the field for our easiest kind of school (a leadership school), there was one Jewish woman from an ARCOM office, who poured the whole bottle into an MRE main packet (something like chicken a la king, if I remember correctly). She had to eat something, or she would have fallen out (field classes somewhat rigorous for non-combat soldiers).

IMO, the Army should do more to make sure that kosher meals are available for every soldier who needs them--even those training with reserve components far from the more builtup, populated posts. We rarely saw women in training, because there weren't any in my military occupational specialty.