After the First Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army fled in a hurry. When the volunteer soldiers cleaned the battlefield, they found several barrels of strange powder, and many foreign character codes were written on the barrels, and everyone speculated about its use, but it did not take long for these barrels of powder to lead to stories that made people laugh and cry.
The Volunteers captured the 1st Cavalry Division at Unsan
The first soldier to find it did not recognize the object and immediately called for an instructor. The instructor looked at all the foreign languages and did not recognize. Gently shake with your hands, the bucket is full. Fearing that it was a dangerous item, the instructor immediately asked everyone to stay away, and he himself carefully pried open the lid of the barrel with a bayonet.
I saw that it was filled with fine black powder, and it also emitted a smell that had never been smelled before. Seeing this, the instructor was the first to think of explosives. He carefully twisted out some powder and put it on the ground, put the firewood on it, and found that it could not be lit, which made everyone feel at ease.
The U.S. military is making coffee from ammunition tanks
Finally, a warrior who had seen this thing came, and he told everyone that this thing was called coffee, which was used to soak water and drink, which could refresh the mind. The instructor grabbed a little and put it in the kettle after listening, and just took a sip and squirted out. This thing is more bitter than Chinese medicine, who would like to drink this thing? Everyone was busy scavenging for weapons and ammunition, and a few buckets of coffee were quickly forgotten in the corner.
In addition to the black powder, there is also golden egg powder. The little warrior did not know, thought it was sulfur powder, directly dumped, and then listened to the prisoner's introduction to know that this is egg powder to supplement nutrition, everyone regrets it.
The U.S. military's rations are so surplus that they can also keep pets
And the fate of those few barrels of coffee is not much better. By the time of the Second Campaign, the troops were marching in the field, in order to make the follow-up troops not take the wrong road, these coffee powders were pinched into a ball with the snow and wrapped in small branches to make road signs, and its peculiar black shape and fragrance left a deep impression on the volunteers, and everyone gave it a name called "road sign mud".
The chief of the rear heard this news and was happy: they are all losers, Lao Tzu wants to refresh his mind and can only drink pepper water, do you have foreign coffee directly as mud? But after laughing, people feel unspeakably sad, if you compare the gap between the rations of the volunteer army and the coalition forces at that time, you know how difficult it is to win this war.
This was the C meal that the U.S. military at the time hated, and its richness made the volunteers who captured it ecstatic
There is a saying in the U.S. military: The farther you run, the better you eat. However, at that time, the large number of C meals (including biscuits, lunch meat, beans, dehydrated vegetables, fruit candy, coffee powder, etc.) caused the US military to complain. They believe that the MCS (the market center system responsible for ration supply) is not committed at all, and after coordination, the MCS determines the next supply plan:
Staple foods (fresh meat, vegetables) are not repeated once a week, side dishes are served 3 times a week, and desserts such as ice cream are served once a week. For every 1,000 servings of rations, 23 pounds of grain, 16.67 pounds of dehydrated potatoes, 20 pounds of milk powder, 67 pounds of jelly and jam, 30 pounds of margarine, and 60 pounds of bread should be included. These foods allowed U.S. soldiers to consume at least 4,500 calories a day, so there were still a large number of U.S. soldiers in Chosin Lake who froze to death and frostbite.
A U.S. military-level canteen, making B meals
In addition to the U.S. military, the other countries in the coalition have their own requirements for rations. If the Turkish brigade does not eat pork, the rest of the meat is cut into thin wire croquettes, which requires a lot of vegetable oil, in addition to double bread, olives and onions.
The Thai army did not like bread and potatoes, but demanded a lot of hot sauce. The Greeks didn't want flour and sugar, but they wanted plenty of rice, potatoes, and macaroni. Although the number of italian troops who like to eat the most is small, they have their own special rations, such as bread, rice, vegetable oil, macaroni, flour, cheese, tomatoes and tomato sauce, and the portion is 50% more than that of the US army.
On Thanksgiving Day, soldiers of the First Marine Division were eating turkey
It can be said that the armies of 20 countries have their own ways of eating, each has its own exquisiteness, such a huge variety and quantity, MCS actually copes with it with ease, I have to say that the logistics of the US military is so good that "even the enemy is jealous."
The rations of the volunteers were only frozen potatoes and fried noodles in the snow
At this time, in order to prevent enemy air raids, the volunteer army could not make a fire to cook during the day, and the rations were only a few frozen potatoes, and if they wanted to eat, they had to put them under their armpits to cover the heat. Even fried noodles are eaten later. As for the compressed biscuits, they were left for the wounded, and some troops even ran out of food for a few days. It is hard to imagine that they fought the coalition under such extremely difficult conditions and won the battle.