[DUMBGRUNT]

fully stocked with military K rations,

K's in 1961?

[Carriage Hill]

Those ended in ‘58, replaced by these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Combat,_Individual_ration

and then MREs, according to Wiki. I don’t have any military backgrond, so I don’t know. We ate some military surplus “stuff” in the 50s in the Boy Scouts, on camping trips.