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Article: Feeding the soldiers in Iraq.
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- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The feeding standard is that soldiers will be provided three quality meals daily. When units deploy under combat conditions or in support of contingency plans, they will initially consume the meal, ready-to-eat (MRE). As the theater matures and METT-T allows, soldiers will also consume a variety of group feeding rations. Among these rations are the T- (heat-and-serve), B-, and A-Rations.
--FM 10-1, Quartermaster Principles
During their deployment to Iraq, the soldiers of the Field Feeding Platoon (FFP) of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 296th Brigade Support Battalion (BSB), 3d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Washington, ...