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Originally Posted by Mutt
oh it's a daily ration pack - soldiers eating pretty good!
soldiers can be out in the field for weeks - how many of those can they carry along with all the other shit they have to lug around?
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As much as necessary (within limits). When we prepared to be several days out, we didn't take that kind of packs per se. We selected what we wanted and left rest at the barracks. I still have the left behind stuff at my home. No one asked us to give that unused stuff back, they just assumed we used it all and didn't care for leftovers.
Usually we left quite much canned stuff behind (heaviest one) and also some shitty dry foods. Some fucking cheese soups, come on; I hate cheese soup. I think that we didn't carry more than five days worth of food or so at any given time. If the battle exercise was serious shit, the limit comes from being awake 3 days in a row, not from the lack of the food.
During WWII, long range recons had previously made stacks and resupplys with plane droppings.