Can someone explain what C-4 is?

[ConHog]

C5 is probably the best gen of vette ever. That car brought honest performance to the name which was sorely lacking before. Worst thing was HVAC/Radio controls out of PlaySkool, and shitty seats. C6? Car of the gods - the gods who like MONSTER performance but still shitty seats.

Worst thing about the C5 nowadays, 350hp (non ZO6, etc) isn't adequate anymore. Sedans - "grocery getters" have that kinda power now. I have one.

To me the bean counters killed the Vette in the 70s. Don't get me wrong, the C5 and C6 are incredible performers, and the exterior is quite sexy. But just something so offputting about the interior that I just can't love em the way I should.

[CSM]

We'd definitely have been trading buddies then. I liked the beans and franks with the orange nut roll. Wasn't real keen on the iodine-flavored water though.

Yah the orange nut roll was pretty good (still like pound cake better). We could have worked some deals! C-rats used to have smokes and toilet paper too which was always nice! Could never have enough smokes or toilet paper.

[Gunny]

Ahh - freeze-dried. Yeah, circa 1980? You're THAT old? wow. MRE's also had non-freeze-dried entries, too - even wayyyyyyyyyyyy back then. I turned 8 in dec of 1980...just sayin.

I was at my first duty station. Y'all can say what you want. I wouldn't eat MREs cold and that whole "meal, ready-to-eat" thing is a misnomer. C-Rats were like having Sphagetti-Os, etc.

[CSM]

Ahh - freeze-dried. Yeah, circa 1980? You're THAT old? wow. MRE's also had non-freeze-dried entries, too - even wayyyyyyyyyyyy back then. I turned 8 in dec of 1980...just sayin.

8 as in 8 years old??? There sure ae a lot of young folk around here! Makes me feel ancient.

[ConHog]

Guess I'm pickier than you. I would just as soon have a can of Alpo as eat a cold MRE.

Not pickier, just older. I have heard stories about how awful the early MREs are. The current ones while not gourmet food, aren't dogfood either. I actually still have some stored away.

[CSM]

I was at my first duty station. Y'all can say what you want. I wouldn't eat MREs cold and that whole "meal, ready-to-eat" thing is a misnomer. C-Rats were like having Sphagetti-Os, etc.

Yep. Of course back then you could cook, shave, and shower in your steel pot. Made a pretty good camp stool and sometimes sufficed as a pillow, though the mask was better for that.

Not pickier, just older. I have heard stories about how awful the early MREs are. The current ones while not gourmet food, aren't dogfood either. I actually still have some stored away.

Truth is if you are hungry enough you will eat ANYTHING.

[darin]

I think MRE's are fine, by the way. MRE's gave me the love of hot-sauce - you guys know there aren't little bottles in them anymore?? A few I brought home from Iraq now have red-pepper flakes instead. HORRIBLE.

[ConHog]

See, my memory of MREs is things like Spaghetti and meatballs or peanut butter and jelly sandwich and had M&Ms or something like that for dessert.

Yep. Of course back then you could cook, shave, and shower in your steel pot. Made a pretty good camp stool and sometimes sufficed as a pillow, though the mask was better for that.

UGH, what I remember about the steel pot is Drill Sergent Edwards having us boots lay on the ground with our steel pots under our chests with our arms behind our backs as some sort of "exercise." Not sure what that exercise was supposed to accomplish other than to entertain said drill sergeant.

[CSM]

UGH, what I remember about the steel pot is Drill Sergent Edwards having us boots lay on the ground with our steel pots under our chests with our arms behind our backs as some sort of "exercise." Not sure what that exercise was supposed to accomplish other than to entertain said drill sergeant.

Heh ... builds character as do most exercises in futility!

[Gunny]

Yah the orange nut roll was pretty good (still like pound cake better). We could have worked some deals! C-rats used to have smokes and toilet paper too which was always nice! Could never have enough smokes or toilet paper.

Oh yeah. The two-pack of Chesterfields or Lucky's.

[Gunny]

Yep. Of course back then you could cook, shave, and shower in your steel pot. Made a pretty good camp stool and sometimes sufficed as a pillow, though the mask was better for that.



Truth is if you are hungry enough you will eat ANYTHING.

I DID shave and "shower" in my steel pot. I couldn't stand that kevlar helmet. Only thing it was good for was to sit on your head. Can't even dig with it.

[CSM]

I DID shave and "shower" in my steel pot. I couldn't stand that kevlar helmet. Only thing it was good for was to sit on your head. Can't even dig with it.

Too true. The lighter weight of Kevlar didn't make up for the loss of utility in my book.

[ConHog]

Heh ... builds character as do most exercises in futility!

Got that right. I also remember filling MANY a sandbag only to march by the same spot the next day and see another platoon emptying those very sandbags . LOL

[Gunny]

Too true. The lighter weight of Kevlar didn't make up for the loss of utility in my book.

You had to use your canteen cup for the utility stuff once they issued us the kevlar helmet. Heh ... and you KNOW a few hard-heads had to burn up their helmets just to see if it was true you couldn't heat it.

[ConHog]

I DID shave and "shower" in my steel pot. I couldn't stand that kevlar helmet. Only thing it was good for was to sit on your head. Can't even dig with it.

So, didn't the Marines include one of those nifty little folding shovels in your kit? What a trench tool, they may as well have just given us spoons. Lighter and just as effective.