Army rations are meals and accessories which are packed for the soldiers and they are packed in a retort pouch. This meal contains meal for one soldier which provides nutritional value to him. The army rations also contains accessories which are needful to the soldiers during the disaster. All the countries have different army rations for their soldiers as per the ethnic tastes or according to the taste of the nation. They are also called combat Ration for the Army. Some ration packs are such which lasts longer and does not get spoiled easily or some packs are just for 24 hours.
These army rations contain three meals and that is breakfast, lunch and dinner which gives energy to the soldier. The packs also include sundries like Oatmeal block, fruit biscuits, brown biscuits, chocolate, boiled sweets, chocolate drink, beverage whitener, sugar, tea, coffee, stock drink, orange or lemon drink, chewing gum, waterproof matches, paper tissues, water pure tabs or multi vitamin capsules. There are different combinations of meals available like:
Combination 1 – Beans & Hamburger, Soup, Chicken with Mushrooms & Pasta, Chocolate Pudding, Snacks, Sundries and Drink.
Combination 2 - Beef Stew & Dumplings, Corned Beef Hash, Soup, Chocolate Pudding in Chocolate Sauce, or Treacle Pudding plus all usual sundries and snacks.
Combination 3 – Beans & Sausages, Soup, Lamb stew with potatoes, Fruit Dumplings & Custard Sauce and the snacks and sundries also with it.
Combination 4 – Beans & sausages, Soup, Pork Casserole with Treacle Pudding along with the sundries and snacks.
Here are the combinations in which different army rations are given for the 1 day menus for one soldier. There are also ration packs which lasts for 10 or more years which are helpful for the soldiers who go for war on very far area where food is not available. So the soldiers carry these packs which do not get spoiled.
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