Here I Field Test and take a look inside a U.N. Issue Peacekeeping One Man Patrol Ration made for British Troops on deployment and peacekeeping missions:
Enjoy:
United Nations Occidental Ration Pack Menu #3 – A Look Inside Military Personell Rations
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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:
- Chicken with rice and vegetables (Main dish – 300g)
- Original Beef Jerky – 25g (S-R ration does not include easy-to-eat / quick snacks like this)
- 1x Hard Tack biscuits – 45g (the S-R rations contain two packs making it 90g or 4 bisuits)
- Vanilla flavoured classic drinking chocolate – 25g
- 1x Pack freeze dried apple bits – 15g
- 1x Cherry flavour cereal fruit bar –
- 1x Fig flavour cereal fruit bar (In the S-R ration, only one fruit bar is given)
- Chewing gum
- Coffe extract sweet / Candy
- Spices (Salt and pepper)
- Napkin
- Wet wipe – x2
- Toilet paper
- Zip lock bag
- Disposable spoon
- Drinking Straw
- 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)
- Storm Matches (Again, these are not included in the S-R ration)
- Water purification tablet – 1 in pack (Another item which the S-R does not include)
- 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
Tasting A South Korean MRE / Army-Style Ration FIELD TEST
It’s been a while, I know – Welcome back and sorry to my usual followers (the whole 2 of you … jokes) for not posting in a while.
This video is of a South Korean Civilain Army Copy Ration I imported from Korea, the taste was great and I did have a few of these rations before making the review video. The course was a Dehydrated Beef Bibimbap (Rice) which was great in flavour and quite authentic, I have been to Korea before and the dish I ate there reminds me quite a bit of this one.
MRE means ”Meal-Ready-To-Eat”, in this case the meal is not a true MRE as it still needs some kind of cooking process, real military MRE’s are designed to be eaten cold (Pre-cooked) in the case that there is not enough time to warm food rations up during military operations and battle)
Thanks for joining me on this one, I still have 3 rations which have been filmed (all Genuine Military rations) Which need editing and uploading and still about 5 more in stock awaiting their turn (both one meal [8hr+] and 3 meal [24 hour] rations).
At time of posting this article, my Military Ration Playlist has 6 Foreign MRE Ration videos for your enjoyment.
DETAILS:
Meal: Korean Beef Bibimbap – Menu #2
Kcal: 457 Dry Weight: 120g
Water needed for rehydration: 250ml
Other Requirements: Empty Stomach + Spoon etc
Video: South Korean MRE Ration (10 mins video, with sneak peek of one of my recent wildcam sessions in an Ancient Oak Woodland – it was a beautiful little trip):
CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO > > https://youtu.be/lDCAZz7GTSc
Taste Testing Army MRE Rations: Spanish Armed Forces ICR (Video Review)
It’s Military ration time again, this time I’m swinging away from Eastern Europe and going Mediterranean! I got the ‘Fuerzas Armadas Racion Individual De Combate’ or Spanish Armed Forces Individual Combat Ration – Lunch / Comida ”A”5 – that’s menu #5 on the lunch list!
Menu and Accesories List As Per The Info. Booklet Inside The MRE (Meal Ready-To-Eat)
Food Menu:
- 1x Bag of Chicken & Pasta Instant Soup 13g
- 1x Tin of Tuna Salad (Country Style) 195g
- 1x Tin Cooked Lean Pork 200g
- 1x Tube of Apple Cream
Accessories:
- 2x Water Purification Tablets
- 3x Solid combustible Tablets (For heating the food on the Esbit stove)
- 4x Bags Of Defatigant Isotonic Powder with Vitamin C 5g
- 1x Chewing Gum
- 1x Envelope of Matches (20 Matches)
- 1x Stove For Warming
- 1x Bag Cellulose Paper (10 Sheets)
- 1x Fluoride Toothpaste
- 1x Instant Hand Disinfectant
- 1x Info. Label
Video of the Review – Filmed Outdoors at my first Wild Camp location:
In conclusion, this was a very tasty and satisfying MRE / Ration! Albeit a little bit over the top with salt (it had a stock chicken and pasta soup which together with the salty lean pork main was a bit too much for me). I made the mistake of not reading the information booklet thoroughly, it has an ”Instructions” section which I thought was only for the Esbit Stove and Water Purification tablets etc. but it also gave instructions for the Isotonic drink powder.
My mistake was using two of the Isotonic sachets to make a +-300ml drink and it was very bland and almost tasteless, although being correct that the dosage of four sachets should be split into two, I made it with too much water.
Had the drink been a little bit more sweet and tangy, this would have offset the saltiness from the main and soup.
Interesting facts about Spanish Field Rations and Military Procedure is that, according to commenters from the Spanish Armed Forces, troops are issued with a hard-tack biscuit / cracker ration at the beginning of the day. This ration is kept aside and ONLY used IF there is no fresh bread supplied from a field kitchen, according to them, the supply of Fresh Bread is a high priority for troops in the field and deployment hence why the rations lack packed crackers / biscuits such as those in French and Eastern European rations.
I noticed the lack of Coffee or Tea, I expect the Spanish prefer Coffee and I suspect that the same field kitchen would probably be supplying fresh Coffe as well however, this is just my personal speculation.
I have since received two MRE / Rations, one 24 hour from Southern Europe and another 24 hour from a Eurasian country! … With 3 others on the way from other parts of the world so swing by, hit follow and keep an eye out for those.
Cheers
BushmanAOD
Eaten An MRE Lately?
Do you even know what an MRE is? It stands for Meal Ready-To Eat and is common food supplies given to military men and women the world over during military service but mostly during operations and war time…
My first knowledge of the MRE was from an American movie (Tremors 2, aftershocks) where Earl (the Soldier of fortune, military obsessed guy) mentioned them as part of his supplies in that scene of the movie … I must admit, for a few months that was my favourite movie – I was in my early teens.
Anyhow, I have come across some reviews as it seems that civillians have been getting their hands on them and some have even started making complete youtube channels dedicated to obtaining and reviewing MRE’s from around the world!
One such channel (Steve1989MRE) has just over 1.1 Million subscribers! < Yes, that many people actually want to see someone opening and eating an MRE on a regular basis!
I ordered my first MRE online, it was the Polish Army ”Indiwidualna Racja Zywnosciowa S-R Zestaw Nr 4-S-R4” or in english: ”Individual Food Ration Set Nr (Menu number) 4-S-R-4”
I wasn’t paying attention, I thought it was the typical 24 hour rations, it was not, this is for one main meal – which was:
- Hungarian Style Goulash 300g
- Smoked Sprats In Oil 125g
- Special Hard Biscuits 2x 45g < Definitely Special, like Special Forces Body Armour Plates!
- Honey 25g
- Lime Instant Tea Drink 15g
- pear flavoured fruit and nut bar 35g
- mint chewing gum 2 pcs
- coffee candy x1 and vitamin c candy x1
- salt 1g & pepper 0.2g
- paper napkin 1pc
- wet wipe 1pc
- toilet paper 1.5m
- plastic bag
- disposable spoon 1 pc
- drinking straw x1
- flameless chemical heater x1
- water needed for whole preperation: 320ml
So I headed out to a new woodland, one I have been looking at on maps and desperately wanting to recce and scout for future daytrips or overnighters …. after all the cycling I got hungry and whipped out the Romneys! …
I decided to recce first, check out some spots for food foraging and entry / exit options to and from the woodland incase of using other means of getting there (Hiking, train etc.) I had my bike that time. I brought along the new Hammock to swing in and rerlax, plus to try it out in a new area and practice setting it up – here’s the rations loaded out:
The ration pack (We call them Rat Packs in South Africa where I originate) includes a flameless chemical heater that is water activated, basically you place some water into the plastic bag together with the sealed main meal container, fold and sit aside for 15 min’s after which, your meal will be hot and ready! I opted to keep the heater for another purpose and use my new GoHike Alcohol Burner in my Lixada Hinged Folding Stick Stove to cook the Goulash in my 10cm Billy Can.
polish army mre smokes sprats menu 4
Polish MRE Lime Tea w Green Tea Extract
Polish Army Hungarian Goulash Ration MRE Review
Overall I enjoyed the food and snacks, it did fill me up! What’s going to be my next MRE review? French army? Kazakstan? New Zealand? Russia? Lets See!
My only complaint being the 1.5m toilet paper, it was very bland and gave me incredible cotton mouth!
Keep an eye out here, I will uplaod the video on 4th April 2019
Cheers, Bushman AOD
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