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Originally Posted by Trip_Wire
I know doubt, have one somewhere in the house that I never turned in.
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The first few years I was in I purchased a "second" of just about everything I had to keep packed in my rucksack or used in the field. Yes, in the 70s we kept our rucksacks packed acording to the packing list in our team rooms.
The mess kits were used now and again during survival training and were much too hard to clean up for an IG inspection. Somewhere out in a kit bag in the garage is just about a complete CIF issue.
In the field most carried a C-ration plastic spoon. "Captain Lend-Me-Light" always carried an issue metal spoon. He would check up on the team as we were eating and to be social would take "just a bite". By the time he made it around the team he had eaten a full meal.
We extracted our revenge the next FTX on the B-ville salt flats. When the team stopped we each picked the biggest bush we could find and waited to eat and drink until after it was too light to move around. As first light was coming on the Captain came around to "check on the troops". None of us had food, smokes or drink out. He returned to his bush hungry. Since he didn't pack much food in his ruck after a few days of this he was not a happy camper. The next FTX he had plenty of food packed.