United States military ration
United States military ration refers to the military rations provided to sustain United States Armed Forces service members, including field rations and garrison rations, and the military nutrition research conducted in relation to military food. U.S. military rations are often made for quick distribution, preparation, and eating in the field and tend to have long storage times in adverse conditions due to being thickly packaged or shelf-stable.
U.S. Air Force airmen serving Unitized Group Rations prepared in a single palletized expeditionary kitchen
An American soldier boiling his rations using rolls of silk to create a cooking fire without smoke, 1917
U.S. Army soldiers eating C-rations during the Italian campaign of World War II, 1943
A U.S. Marine eating an MRE, 2005. This Marine is taking part in "The Crucible" training course, part of which has trainees ration their MREs over a three-day period.
A garrison ration is a type of military ration. Usually distinct from field rations, the term has varying meanings, but generally refers to either rations issued to personnel at a camp, installation, or other garrison; allowance allotted to personnel to purchase goods or rations sold in a garrison; the rations purchased with the aforementioned allowance; or a type of issued ration.
U.S. Marines receiving food rations from a field kitchen at Forward Operating Base Delaram in Afghanistan, 2009
