Polish Army (Special Forces??) M.R.E. Ration – Loadout and Field Test

I have now tired out two Military Rations from Poland, the first was the S-R Menu / Ration and the second, most recent was marketed as a Specail Forces Ration, upon looking into it (the contents) It was quite convincing that this new ration was definitely quite different from the first one due to the inclusion and exclusion of some sundries …

Here is the full loadout and description of the contents, then further below why I think the seller believes this is / was a Special Forces Ration.

Click HERE for the video review of this ration.

CONTENTS:

1. Chicken with rice and vegetables (Main dish – 300g)
2. Original Beef Jerky – 25g (S-R ration does not include easy-to-eat / quick snacks like this)
3. 1x Hard Tack biscuits – 45g (the S-R rations contain two packs making it 90g or 4 bisuits)
4. Vanilla flavoured classic drinking chocolate – 25g
5. 1x Pack freeze dried apple bits – 15g
6. 1x Cherry flavour cereal fruit bar –
7. 1x Fig flavour cereal fruit bar (In the S-R ration, only one fruit bar is given)
8. Chewing gum
9. Coffe extract sweet / Candy
10. Spices (Salt and pepper)
11. Napkin
12. Wet wipe – x2
13. Toilet paper
14. Zip lock bag
15. Disposable spoon
16. Drinking Straw
17. Hook pack – 2 pieces (this was one of the main items that made me feel that this ration may be used by Special Forces teams, the purpose of these hooks is to hang the package pack or zip lock bag off of a tree for the purpose of filtering and purifying water)
18. Storm Matches (Again, these are not included in the S-R ration)
19. Water purification tablet – 1 in pack (Another item which the S-R does not include)
20. FRH – Flameless ration heater

NOTE: The packaging bag in this ration has a 1 liter line mark on the bag making it possible to utilize as a water purification bag – the S-R rations have the exact same bag but missing the line marker

CONCLUSION:

I still have yet to determine whether this ration is used by Polish Special forces teams – so far, I have had a few commenters on the youtube video saying that this is the normal ration – so there is now reason to find out why the S-R rations are different to these S-RS Rations and what the purpose is? The S-R rations are still being produced so these are not a new product as a replacement, you can still as of now purchase S-R rations which have the exact same or even future Best Before dates.

Personally, unless the Polish Special Forces use another ration on deployment, Then in my opinion this ration is the best one suited to their types of missions given the additional items included which are far more suited to their type of enviroment and fast paced action.

If you find MRE’s (Meal, Ready to Eat) / Military Rations interesting, why not follow the blog and hit up my youtube channel, I have already a decent playlist of rations from various nations with more coming such as: Russian, Singaporean, Norwegian and more