08-01-2020, 10:46 AM
(08-01-2020, 10:17 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: @"Ninurta"
I was told it meant "reconnaissance commando" but that was years after we had departed Vietnam.
Did get to try the LRRP rations. I guess in some ways MRE's were modeled after those.
Yeah, the long-range ops are hazardous.
Cheers
Yup, that's what it means. They ran a Recondo School at Ft. Lewis up until about 1978, and as far as I know now still run one out of Bragg. Small classes, and only run 5 or so classes a year.
I never ate any LRRP rations, but from what I understand they were a freeze-dried mess packaged like MRE's. I reckon that would cut down on weight, but you still had to hydrate them or choke, which meant carrying more water or purification tabs. I ate a lot of C-rats, which were somewhat wetter, but you paid for that wet in weight. Ate a lot of them cold, right out of the cans. Still have a P-38 to open them with on my keychain.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’