A field ration is a type of prepackaged military ration designed to be easily and quickly prepared and consumed in the field, in combat, at the front line, or where eating facilities are otherwise …

United States military ration refers to the military rations provided to sustain United States Armed Forces service members, including field rations and garrison rations, and the military nutrition …

INDIVIDUAL RATIONS Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) The MRE is the primary general-purpose individual ration used by the US Armed Forces. Leaders should consider using the MRE …

The C-ration (officially Field Ration, Type C) was a United States military ration consisting of prepared, canned wet foods. They were intended to be served when fresh or packaged …

Field ration D proved to be convenient and versatile; it can be called the first modern emergency ration. Because it did not provide the soldier with 3 full, palatable, and nutritionally...

During the mid to late 1930s the Army began looking to overhaul its field rations. The first of the new rations was the D-ration, a fortified chocolate bar that really was not a ration (“The …

Army Field Feeding System (AFFS) is three quality meals per day. This standard is achieved by using a combination of individual rations and unitized group rations (UGRs).

An emergency bar to sustain life when other sources of food supply failed was Field Ration D. This four-fold concept of field rations, particularly as applied to the packaged C and D, …

The Operational Rations division ensures our military personnel receive subsistence support in the intense, highly mobile combat situations of the modern battlefield, while also supporting …

logically advanced, state-of-the-art advanced ration and packaging systems in the hands of Warfighters today. The initial packaged ration concepts of the 1950s have led directly to today’s...