Don't be fooled by the plain brown wrapper. A ready-to-eat military entree with a three-year shelf life is actually pretty tasty when boiled in water. It can be dropped several hundred feet and sit ...

U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf region are not only putting new combat equipment to the test, they`re also fielding the latest in military food technology: MREs, the modern version of the C-ration.

2003-02-23 04:00:00 PDT Evansville, Ind.-- That isn't mom up there in the helicopter, making meat loaf and enchiladas, tucking in a magnesium pad to heat them up, adding vitamin-laced peanut butter, a ...

It's well after noon and our Land Rover is bumping along what used to be a highway, bouncing us against the truck's side walls whenever it hits a deep rut. We're rolling past Iraqi oil fields ...

2003-04-07 04:00:00 PDT Natick, Mass.-- There is a seriousness of purpose here in the Department of Defense test kitchen these days. In a sprawling, 1960s-style building set alongside a lake in this ...

NO PIECE OF American military equipment in the Persian Gulf war seemed to take more of a pounding than MREs, the new generation of field rations. They were an easy target — good for a laugh in dismal ...

Here’s something that may sound odd or disgusting to anyone who’s ever served in the military: Field ration connoisseurship is a real thing. In fact, there’s a whole subculture around collecting meals ...