The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian soldiers in South Vietnam are getting the first issues of a new lightweight ration pack for use in the field. The new pack, which weighs less than half (1.25 lbs against 3 lbs) the pack now in general use has, as its two main items, freeze dried meals. They are quickly prepared. As soon as a patrol through a rubber plantation in Vietnam gets the word to stop for a break, troops unpack their ration pack. After setting up their portable cook stove, they add water to the freeze dried meals and, using the pack as a cooking utensil, heat up a meal in a very short time. In addition to the new type basic meals, the new pack has done away with many of the old type hard-tack biscuits. In the latest rations there is only one small packet of these. Other biscuits are raspberry crunch and currant luncheon. Cheese, sugar, lollies, coffee, powdered milk, a plastic spoon, toilet paper and a rubber band go to make up the new pack which costs 1.93 dollars compared with the 1.38 dollars for the old pack. (Also identified: Section Commander Lance Corporal Wayne Peters of Bexley, NSW; machine gunner Pte Mitch Oddy of Campbelltown, NSW; Cpl Patrick Odell of Broadmeadow, Vic).
The Minister for the Army, Mr Andrew Peacock, recently played host to members of the Military Board, senior officers and officials of other departments in a food tasting operation at Army Headquarters
There is nothing like a tasty, solid and nutritious meal to a soldier in action, especially when he can have all this and very little weight to carry. Australian troops may soon experience this follow
Rectangular, green painted ration tin outer with crimped lid and base, containing three separate ration meals. A metal turnkey, similar to those found on sardine tins, is tack-welded to the lid and is
Olive drab rectangular tin with separate lid, originally containing five pre-packed one-day rations, each sealed in a plastic bag marked 'Not For Private Resale to Public'. Both the lid and base are e
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