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Subject: Belt-sized thermos?
jastayme3    9/24/2007 3:18:10 PM
I recently read Up Front by Bill Mauldin and he especially notes the inability to get hot food up to the line as an inconvenience. That problem may have been solved by now. But I was wondering. What if there was a thermos the size of a canteen for carrying coffee, tea, or soup? There are always difficulties("What did you do during the war daddy","I got a purple heart for being scalded when a near-miss splattered hot coffee all over me."). Still it is worth a thought. Or did someone think of it before?
 
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dobrodan       9/24/2007 3:27:46 PM
We have such a thermos in the Norwegian Army... And it sucks... If you pre-heat it with hot water, then pour hot drink in it, it will be relatively cool within a couple of hours... In winter-time even faster.
 
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Horsesoldier       9/24/2007 7:24:51 PM
Hot meals in the field has been addressed, though I'm not sure one could say "satisfactorily" 
 
In current issue MREs there are flameless ration heater pouches that you put your meal pouch in, add water, and some chemical reaction boils the water and heats the retort pouch meal.  They work okay, and being warm will tend to make some of the more marginal MRE entrees more palatable.  I guess these were a replacement for the old trioxane fuel tabs issued with C Rations back in the day (bit before my time, so I may be missing something in how that worked).
 
They don't help with coffee and other hot beverages, though.  I try to personally carry either a little Esbit stove with fuel tabs or a small backpacking stove with fuel tank(s) when in the field during cold weather (or if my coffee intake has been such that going into caffeine withdrawals while in the field seems like a bad, bad idea . . .).
 
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ArtyEngineer       9/26/2007 5:21:56 PM

Hot meals in the field has been addressed, though I'm not sure one could say "satisfactorily" 

 

In current issue MREs there are flameless ration heater pouches that you put your meal pouch in, add water, and some chemical reaction boils the water and heats the retort pouch meal.  They work okay, and being warm will tend to make some of the more marginal MRE entrees more palatable.  I guess these were a replacement for the old trioxane fuel tabs issued with C Rations back in the day (bit before my time, so I may be missing something in how that worked).

 

They don't help with coffee and other hot beverages, though.  I try to personally carry either a little Esbit stove with fuel tabs or a small backpacking stove with fuel tank(s) when in the field during cold weather (or if my coffee intake has been such that going into caffeine withdrawals while in the field seems like a bad, bad idea . . .).


I think the heater works better than you give it credit HS, Ive burnt my tongue on the Chili Mac MRE before!!!!
 
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Yimmy       9/28/2007 10:19:49 AM
Lots of people over here have small thermos drink containers which fit perfectly into an ammo pouch, which they usually buy an additional example of especially for the purpose.


 
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